Object details
Object number
F26n7
Creator(s)
Italian, Rome
Title
Glaive
Date
about 1605
Medium
Metal, wood, and gilded damascening
Dimensions
292 cm (114 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Villa Borghese, Rome.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Giuseppe Giacomini, an administrator of the Borghese family estate, Rome for 6,250 lire on 16 March 1895, through the Roman banker Mr. Sebasti of the firm of Sebasti & Reali.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 1, no. 7. (as halberd of Pope Paul V, Borghese, 1552-1621)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 19. (as halberd of Pope Paul V, Borghese)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 228. (as halberd of Pope Paul V, Borghese)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 40 (5 Jun. 1966), p. 2. (as halberd of Pope Paul V, Borghese)
Walter J. Karcheski, Jr. "An Ecclesiastical Glaive in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1985), pp. 50-53, figs. 1, 3. (as a glaive of the Borghese family, probably of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli, 1576-1633; Italian, Rome, about 1605)
Gallery
Titian Room
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