Fitzwilliam Museum acquire Apollo Bronze as part of AIL
December 12 2023
Picture: The Guardian
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
It seems to be the season for UK museums making acquisitions, as the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has also today made the announcement of its acquisition of a sixteenth century bronze of Apollo by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico, under the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme.
According to the article linked above:
Luke Syson, the Fitzwilliam’s director, said: “What is most remarkable is the way [Antico] takes an ancient marble sculpture that had been rediscovered only relatively recently and turns it from something so beautiful but solid and remote into this fantastically miniaturised, energised work.”
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The figure was once part of a collection of Renaissance and baroque bronzes amassed by Lt Col Mildmay Thomas Boscawen, who died in 1958. His sister later bequeathed the collection to the Fitzwilliam. Antico’s Apollo will now rejoin 56 other Boscawen bronzes at the museum.
