拍品 11
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AN ITALIAN ALABASTER BUST OF THE MONALISA, by Giovanni Broggi, the veiled head and the hands in white alabaster, the shoulders in veined green and grey alabaster, signed on the reverse G. Broggi, late 19th or early 20th Century

细节
AN ITALIAN ALABASTER BUST OF THE MONALISA, by Giovanni Broggi, the veiled head and the hands in white alabaster, the shoulders in veined green and grey alabaster, signed on the reverse G. Broggi, late 19th or early 20th Century
19½in. (49.5cm.) high
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A. Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento, Torino, 1989, p. 37

拍品专文

Giovanni Broggi (1853-1919) worked in Milan and exhibited at the Promotrice in Turin from 1884. He is noted for his romantic works, and it is interesting that he has here translated one of the most celebrated 'romantic' images of art history from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional. Broggi has ingeniously attempted to imitate the celebrated sfumato and palette by using a semi-translucent and coloured stone such as alabaster.