Allegory of Architecture

Model: ca. 1580; Cast: early 1700s 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm) Citation Source image

Architecture is personified as an elegant woman holding an architect's drafting tools in this statuette by Jean Boulogne. He was from the southern Netherlands but active by 1550 in Florence, where he was known as Giovanni Bologna or Giambologna. There he became court sculptor...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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