{"id":39148,"date":"2016-05-13T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/?p=39148&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-07-01T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:31:33","slug":"bust-of-san-sisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/sacred-art-popes-treasury\/bust-of-san-sisto\/","title":{"rendered":"Bust of San Sisto"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Silver embossed, engraved, chiseled, golden, gilded copper and gems<br \/>\n1440-1450\u00a0d.C.<br \/>\nAnonymous silversmith of Viterbo area<br \/>\nheight 52 cm, width 50 cm, depth 30 cm<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bust of San Sisto II \u2013 the reliquary of <em>San Sisto <\/em>II (became pope in 257, martyrized in 258 during the reign of Valeriano) from the Church of San Sisto, has a gilded metal base with round feet, rich embossed decorations on the vestments, on the star and on the tiara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is further enriched by the sprinkled semi precious stones and the phrase <em>Capitis s.t\u00ee Sixti pape Viterbii condito.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The work was mentioned by Niccol\u00f2 della Tuccia\u2019s description of a procession organized by Monsignor Pietro di Francesco, Bishop of Viterbo and Toscanella (Tuscania) on September 20, 1467. It was carried in a procession in honor of the Madonna della Quercia in \u201c a wooden tabernacle carried by 4 priests\u201c.<br \/>\nThanks to this  information we are better able to date  the work.  It has often been compared to the bust of Santa Margherita  kept in Montefiascone but the Senese inspiration  of this latter bust contrasts with the realism shown in that of the martyred pope\u2019s bust. More similar is the bust of San Vivenzio in Blera, by the Viterbese artist Bartolomeo di Russolino.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Mauro Galeotti &#8220;L&#8217;illustrissima Citt\u00e0 di Viterbo&#8221;, Viterbo, 2002<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Scalabroni 1983, p.382<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Pace Bonelli 1994, pp.17-18<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Pedrocchi 2008, p.82<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; Benedetta Montevecchi (a cura di),<strong> Sculture Preziose<\/strong>. <em>Oreficeria sacra nel Lazio dal XIII al XVIII secolo, <\/em>Edizioni Musei Vaticani, Citt\u00e0 del Vaticano 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver embossed, engraved, chiseled, golden, gilded copper and gems 1440-1450\u00a0d.C. Anonymous silversmith of Viterbo area height 52 cm, width 50 cm, depth 30 cm &nbsp; Bust of San Sisto II \u2013 the reliquary of San Sisto II (became pope in 257, martyrized in 258 during the reign of Valeriano) from the Church of San Sisto, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[862],"tags":[938,1533,1420,937,205,1421],"class_list":["post-39148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sacred-art-popes-treasury","tag-bust","tag-bust-of-san-sisto","tag-museo-colle-del-duomo-en","tag-museum","tag-san-sisto","tag-viterbo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39946,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148\/revisions\/39946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archeoares.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}