CIRCLE OF VICENZO DANTI, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

細節

AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF BACCHUS
Circle of Vicenzo Danti, Second half 16th century
Standing nude with contrapuntal stance, one hand raised to his shoulder, the other holding a group of grapes at his side, on an integrally cast base with tree stump, on a white marble columnar pedestal
7¼in. (18cm.) high

來源

With Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York.

出版

Sculpture from the David Daniels Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 26 October 1979 - 13 January 1980, pp. 22-23, cat. no. 5.

拍品專文

Although reversed in pose, this figure is a variant of Michelangelo's David of 1501-02 for the Piazza Signoria, Florence. Two other identical figures, one in the Kress Collection, National Gallery, Washington D.C., and another in the Michael Hall Collection, New York, have been proposed along with the present bronze as attributed to the Mannerist sculptor and follower of Michelangelo, Vicenzo Danti. Pope-Hennesey was the first to suggest this attribution, based largely on similarities with two of Danti's works, Honor Triumphant Over Falsehood and Cosimo I de'Medici (see J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1965, no. 468).

The Perugian goldsmith Vicenzo Danti (1530-1576) left his native city for Florence in 1557 where he worked in the court workshop under the sponsorship of Cosimo I de'Medici. Among his more important commissions were Honor Triumphant Over Falsehood of 1561, and the Venus Anadyomene for the Studiolo of the Palazzo Vecchio of circa 1570-1573.