17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FLORENCE

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AN ITALIAN STONE FOUNTAIN MASK
17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FLORENCE
23 in. (58 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The present mask is comparable with the mannerist carvings of Andrea Calamech (c. 1514–78), who was born in Carrara and worked for a time in Florence, however spending the majority of his career in Messina. He played an important role in establishing a vogue for Tuscan mannerist influences in Sicily.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
F. Negri Arnoldi, Scultura del Cinquecento in Italia Meridionale, Naples, 1997,
no. 124

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