VENETIAN OR BRESCIAN, POSSIBLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO MAFFEO OLIVIERI, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE ALLEGORICAL FEMALE FIGURE, POSSIBLY REPRESENTING LOVE
Venetian or Brescian, possibly attributable to Maffeo Olivieri, early 16th century
On a later multi-coloured marble cylindrical base.
Dark brown patina and reddish brown high points.
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
W. Bode, The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, ed. and rev. by J. Draper, New York, 1980, p. 95, pl. LXXVII.

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Lot Essay

Two other examples of the present bronze can be found in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Skulpturensammlung of the Staaliche Museen in Berlin. The Berlin example was catalogued by Bode (loc. cit.) as coming from the school of the Venetian sculptor Antonio Lombardo, but in the revised edition, Draper relates it to the contemporary artist Maffeo Olivieri. Certainly in the facial type, the bronze is similar to other known works by Olivieri, including the bronze candelabrum in the basilica of San Marco, Venice.

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