| Alkotó | |
|---|---|
| Kultúra | Italian |
| Készítés ideje | second half of the 17th century |
| Tárgytípus | sculpture |
| Anyag, technika | marble |
| Méret | 250 × 92 × 71 cm, 1500 kg |
| Leltári szám | 2004.1 |
| Gyűjtemény | Sculptures |
| Kiállítva | Museum of Fine Arts, Ground Floor, Baroque Hall |
The monumental composition Caritas Romana (Latin for ’Roman Charity’) is a rendering of an ancient legend in which Cimon, sentenced to death by starvation, feeds on the milk of his daughter, Pero. This theme was particularly popular in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Christian art, as one of the picture types depicting the so-called Works of Mercy. The Flemish-born Giusto le Court settled in Venice around 1655, and this statue originates from the Venetian palace Ca’ Sagredo. According to written sources from the eighteenth century, the work stood at the entrance to the magnificent edifice on the Canal Grande. It is not known when the sculpture arrived at itslater home in Hungary, in the garden of the Almássy–Andrássy Palace in Budapest (constructed in 1877), where an identical replica still stands today.
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