ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO MONTAUTI (FLORENCE 1685-AFTER 1740), CIRCA 1720

细节

A CIRCULAR MARBLE PORTRAIT RELIEF OF MARSILIO FICINO (1433-1499)
ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO MONTAUTI (FLORENCE 1685-AFTER 1740), CIRCA 1720
Within a Bardiglio marble roundel, inscribed to the reverse 'MARSILIO FICINO TRADVTTORE DELLA LINGVA GRECCA' and signed with the initials 'AMF'
The portrait relief - 14¼ in. (36 cm.) diameter; 20 in. (51 cm.) diameter overall

来源

With the Heim Gallery, London.

出版

G. Prateri, Repertorio della scultura fiorentina del seicento e settecento, Milan, 1993, II. no. 342.

注意事项

This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

登入

浏览状况报告

拍品专文

Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.

Antonio Montauti was a pupil of Giuseppe Piamontini and flourished under the artistic patronage of the Medici Grand Dukes of Florence. His fame expanded beyond the city walls in 1732 when John V, King of Portugal commissioned him to produce a series of colossal statues for the entrance to the cathedral of Mafra (Portugal), Montauti carved those of Saint Paul and Saint Peter. Under the patronage of Cardinal Alamanno Salviati he moved to Rome in 1733, where he produced a figure of Saint Benedict for the Basilica in St. Peter's.