Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

The Marriage of Saints Joseph and Mary

Artist Giuseppi Torretti (Italian, 1694-1774)

Artist Il Torretto (Italian, 1694-1774)

CultureItalian

Date18th century

MediumTerracotta

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number78.634C

Not on view

DescriptionTerracotta bozzetti depicting the marriage of Joseph and Mary. In this terracotta study, Mary and Joseph kneel on an altar with several figures in the background. A drapery, with the heads of putti on the right, hang overhead.

Published ReferencesFranca Zava Boccazzi, _La Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venezia_ (Italy: del Comune di Venezia, 1965), 226-230. Camillo Semenzato, _La Scultura Veneta del Seicento e del Settecento_ (Venice: 1966), 62, 201, ill. P. Angelo M. Caccin, _The Basilica of Saints John and Paul Venice_ (Venice: Edizioni Aanipolo), 94.