Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-charles-holroyd-1305" aria-label="More by Sir Charles Holroyd" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Charles Holroyd</a>
Death Torrigiano
Presented by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton 1928
adults
artist, sculptor
arts and entertainment
birth to death
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
clergyman
countries and continents
crime and punishment
crucifix
death
diseases and conditions
emaciation
friar / monk
group
groups
history
imprisonment
interiors
man
named individuals
objects
people
persecution
places
prayer
prison
public and municipal
religion and belief
religious
religious
religious and ceremonial
Seville - non-specific
social comment
society
Spain
Spanish Inquisition
suicide
Torrigiano, Pietro d’Antonio
universal religious imagery
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
9 June 2015 – 13 September 2015
2015-09-13
9 June 2015 – 13 September 2015
2015-09-13
2015-06-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-06-09
Fighting History
Exhibition
Death of Torrigiano
support: 935 × 1211 mm
frame: 1114 × 1393 × 100 mm
Presented by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton 1928
<p><b>N04406</b> DEATH OF TORRIGIANO <i>c.</i> 1886
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘Chas. Holroyd’ b.l.; the letters ‘T’ and ‘CH’ are represented as engraved on the stone wall of the cell on the right.
<br/>Canvas, 36 1/2×47 1/4 (93×120).
<br/>Presented by General Sir Ian Hamilton, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.S.O. 1928.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1886 (746).</p>
<p>Pietro Torrigiano (1472–1528), Florentine <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a>, is reputed to have broken Michelangelo's nose in a quarrel; later he worked in England for Henry VII (e.g. the tombs in Westminster Abbey, 1512–18) and from 1522 in Spain, where he was sentenced by the Inquisition in Seville for breaking a marble Madonna he had made, and eventually died on hunger strike in prison. The subject was no doubt inspired by Vasari's account in his <i>Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects</i>, ed. Bohn, II, 1851, p.488. The artist also made an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraving</span></a> of this subject, which was exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, 1909 (9, opus 26).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults artist, sculptor arts and entertainment birth to death cities, towns, villages (non-UK) clergyman countries and continents crime and punishment crucifix death diseases and conditions emaciation friar / monk group groups history imprisonment interiors man named individuals objects people persecution places prayer prison public and municipal religion and belief religious religious religious and ceremonial Seville - non-specific social comment society Spain Spanish Inquisition suicide Torrigiano, Pietro d’Antonio universal religious imagery work and occupations