File:Francesco Bertos - Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents - America - Walters 54657.jpg

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Francesco Bertos: Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents: America   (  )
Artist	Francesco Bertos  (1678–1741)     Alternative names francesco bertos; Francisco Bertos Description Italian sculptor and founder Date of birth/death 23 May 1678  28 November 1741  Location of birth Dolo Work period 1693–1733 Work location Dolo  Authority file : Q1440918 VIAF: 33101810 ISNI: 0000000020994605 ULAN: 500000132 LCCN: nr2006022496 GND: 130318787 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q1440918
Title	Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents: America
Description	English: Very little is known about Francesco Bertos, a highly original artist who created a considerable number of complicated pyramidal groups in a very distinctive, ingenious style that mirrors the lightness and airiness of contemporary rococo painting in France. These four groups (Walters 54.659, 54.657, 54.660, and 54.658) are allegories (symbolic representations) of the four continents, of which the world was then thought to consist. All have their names engraved. In the allegory of America, the fierce and primitive nature of the New World is represented by the semi-nude female Native American warrior wearing feathers, who has shot an opponent with an arrow. She supports a man who stands on an alligator that looks strangely like a lizard. The gruesome detail of the little boy lifting a severed head on a spear refers to European assumptions about the practice of cannibalism in America.
Date	between circa 1710 and circa 1725 date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1725-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium	bronze medium QS:P186,Q34095
Dimensions	68.4 cm (26.9 in)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	54.657
Place of creation	Padua, Italy (?)
Object history	Spiradon, Paris Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., New York, Sale, February 17, 1917 1917: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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