Faith & Charity statue with Scotti COA, Piacenza 1700-1799

Faith//Charity
STATUE, 1700 - ca 1799
"Faith" holds a chalice in her right hand and a book in her left: at her feet a naked cherub crouched and half hidden by her dress. "Charity", on the other hand, with her hair loose and a dress that leaves her shoulders bare, holds a chubby child and with her other hand caresses the head of another older child who leans towards her

OBJECT
statue
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
white marble/ carving/ sculpture
CULTURAL FIELD
Piacenza workshop
LOCATION
Piacenza (PC)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
The two statues were part of the decorative complex of an altar which was located in the third chapel on the right. When the chapels were demolished between 1944 and 1945, during the architectural "restoration", the altar was probably dismembered: it is not known what happened to the other parts of the altar (see file no. 124). These two statues, rather common, but quite valuable, were thus placed in this chapel, above two columns (see entry no. 73) with the Scotti coat of arms, perhaps those which supported the ark of the Piacenza family, located in the right nave
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
LEGAL CONDITION
property Catholic religious body
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800111852
COMPETENT BODY FOR PROTECTION
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
FILING BODY
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza