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| Keywords: Italian - Saint Joseph - Walters 27531.jpg This figure of Saint Joseph was once brightly colored It was probably part of a Nativity group that included the baby Jesus being worshiped by the Virgin Mary Painted terracotta was popular in 15th-century Tuscany where it was typically used for multi-figure religious compositions arranged as if on a stage Joseph's meditative pose isolates him from the Virgin and Child and places emphasis on the fact that Joseph the patron saint of fathers was not Christ's biological father ca 1475 1500 early Renaissance terracotta polychrome cm 96 5 accession number 27 531 7586 Thomas Fortune Ryan New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Joseph Brummer date and mode of acquisition unknown Brummer Sale New York III 1949 no 454 Walters Art Museum June 9 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 Artful Deception The Craft of the Forger The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Edsel Eleanor Ford House Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art Columbia; Elvehjem Museum of Art Madison; Crocker Art Museum Sacramento; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester; The Barnum Museum Bridgeport 1987-1992 place of origin Tuscany Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
