ITALIAN, PROBABLY ROME, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Details

A MARBLE BUST OF A PHILOSOPHER
ITALIAN, PROBABLY ROME, LATE 17TH CENTURY
24 3/8 in. (62 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
R. Enggass, Early Eighteenth-Century Sculpture in Rome, University Park and London, 1976.
J. Montagu, Roman Baroque Sculpture - The Industry of Art, New Haven and London, 1989.

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Lot Essay

With its strong facial features and vigorously carved hair and beard, the present bust follows in the tradition of late baroque sculptors working in Rome at the end of the 17th century including Pierre Legros, (1666-1719), Camillo Rusconi (1658-1728) and Pierre-Etienne Monnot (1657-1733).

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