The Barbarigo Armorial
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late 16th century · Wood, gilded and polychromed · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The painted coat of arms at the center of this magnificent feat of carving are surrounded by carved figures of the Seven Cardinal Virtues. The arms of Count Nicolo Antonio Giustiniani Barbarigo are nineteenth-century replacements for the earlier arms of the Barbarigo family.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- late 16th century
- Medium
- Wood, gilded and polychromed
- Culture
- Italian, Venice
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1963
