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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
U. Baldini, L'opera completa di Michelangelo scultore, Milan, 1973, no. 28, pls. XXI - XXIII.
C. Avery, Giambologna: An Exhibition of Sculpture by the Master and His Followers, From the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., New York, 1998, p. 160.
The present bronze is after Michelangelo's famous marble figure of Moses for the tomb of Pope Julius II in the church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Michelangelo's sculptures have always been popular and smaller scale copies in various materials, such as bronze and terracotta, have been made almost from the moment he executed them. While many of these reduced versions were probably made for the private contemplation of a connoisseur, the present lot is a dramatic -- and much larger scale version -- than most.
U. Baldini, L'opera completa di Michelangelo scultore, Milan, 1973, no. 28, pls. XXI - XXIII.
C. Avery, Giambologna: An Exhibition of Sculpture by the Master and His Followers, From the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., New York, 1998, p. 160.
The present bronze is after Michelangelo's famous marble figure of Moses for the tomb of Pope Julius II in the church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Michelangelo's sculptures have always been popular and smaller scale copies in various materials, such as bronze and terracotta, have been made almost from the moment he executed them. While many of these reduced versions were probably made for the private contemplation of a connoisseur, the present lot is a dramatic -- and much larger scale version -- than most.