Stylized painting showing a photographer operating a large wooden bellows camera, set against a backdrop of draped reddish-brown fabric and abstract gray forms.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 60

"A Silver Hanukkah Lamp by Gaspare Vanneschi"

Spagnoletto, Davide
2025
13 pages
14 illustrations
9.25 x 11.25 in
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 60 include texts on a ceramic figure of a Tolita-Tumaco community elder crafted in ancient Ecuador, an exemplary Hanukkah lamp made by an eighteenth-century Roman silversmith, and modernist painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portrait as a Photographer from 1924.

Baraffael Family Hanukkah Lamp, Gaspare Vanneschi  Italian, Silver, embossed, engraved, punched; soft wood back support, Italian, Rome
Gaspare Vanneschi
1773–75
Raccolta delle Principale Fontane dell' Inclitta Città di Roma con la nova Aguinta disegnate da Girolamo Felice Romano et intaglate da Pietro Miotte Borg.ne, Domenico Parasacchi  Italian, Etching
Multiple artists/makers
after 1651

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Spagnoletto, Davide. “A Silver Hanukkah Lamp by Gaspare Vanneschi.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 60 (December 2025): 42–54. https://doi.org/10.1086/739633.