La Zingarella

La Zingarella or Gypsy Girl is a 140 centimetres (55 in) tall statue of Diana[2] commissioned by Scipione Borghese[3] and executed by Nicolas Cordier. It was made with bronze, and white and gray marble. It is on display in Room X in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy.[3]

La Zingarella
ArtistNicolas Cordier
Yearsometime between 1607 and 1612[1]
Dimensions140 cm (55 in)
LocationGalleria Borghese, Rome
Coordinates41.914358°N 12.491895°E / 41.914358; 12.491895
For the painting by Correggio of this name, see La Zingarella (Correggio).

Description

This statue is a hybrid of an ancient grey marble torso, and Cordier's white marble and gilded bronze. Recent restoration, which removed a thick black patina added to tone down the statue to suit 19th-century taste, revealed a gold clasp.[1] Its assembly from ancient and modern elements makes it an exotic, almost orientalizing work.[2]

Eagles and dragons decorate the hem of the statue's gown.[1] The gown is knotted at the shoulders.[4] The figure is smiling.[1] The statue's finger points out, as if to acknowledge the viewer. The statue in the Galleria Borghese the most celebrated version of La Zingarella, however, there is another version of the statue by Nicolas Cordier in the Louvre.[5] Visconti described the statue as Diana, detto volgarmente la Zingarella.[6]

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See also
  • Zinger

References
  1. "Gypsy Girl (Zingarella) by CORDIER, Nicolas". Wga.hu. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  2. The language of the muses: the ... - Miranda Marvin, J. Paul Getty Museum - Google Boeken. Books.google.com. 2008. p. 95. ISBN 9780892368068. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  3. "Picasa Web Albums - Agentia de comuni... - META- SCULPTU". Picasaweb.google.com. 2001-08-15. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  4. Bindman, D.; Gates, H.L.; Dalton, K.C.C. (2010). The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 173. ISBN 9780674052611. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  5. "AN ANGLO-ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BUST OF 'LA ZINGARA', her hair in a delicate plaited chignon, crowned by a bejewelled tiara and veil, the veil wound under her chin, wearing a tunic and cloak, inscribed on the socle VESTA, on turned marble socle, early 19th Century". Christies.com. 1992-07-07. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  6. Paul, C.; Campitelli, A.; Getty Research Institute (2000). Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-eighteenth-century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese. Getty Research Institute. p. 123. ISBN 9780892365395. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
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