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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, exh. cat., 5 December 1985 - 2 March 1986, nos. 148-157, pp. 449-455.
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, 'Severo Calzetta da Ravenna: New Discoveries', in Studies in European Sculpture, II, London, 1988, pp. 50-61.
The present bronze model of a satyr is known in a number of versions, many of them with varying details. It is perhaps closest in overall form to a signed example in a private European collection (illustrated in Frankfurt, op. cit., no. 148).
Severo da Ravenna was, along with Andrea Riccio, one of the most important producers of small bronzes in Padua in the early years of the 16th century. His work was formerly intermixed with that of Riccio and, although he has subsequently been considered to be Riccio's most talented follower, there are now suggestions that he may, in fact, be the senior figure of the two. Certainly the popularity of his inventions is attested to by the almost unbroken fascination people have had for his satyrs and grotesque dragons from the 16th century to the present day.
Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, exh. cat., 5 December 1985 - 2 March 1986, nos. 148-157, pp. 449-455.
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, 'Severo Calzetta da Ravenna: New Discoveries', in Studies in European Sculpture, II, London, 1988, pp. 50-61.
The present bronze model of a satyr is known in a number of versions, many of them with varying details. It is perhaps closest in overall form to a signed example in a private European collection (illustrated in Frankfurt, op. cit., no. 148).
Severo da Ravenna was, along with Andrea Riccio, one of the most important producers of small bronzes in Padua in the early years of the 16th century. His work was formerly intermixed with that of Riccio and, although he has subsequently been considered to be Riccio's most talented follower, there are now suggestions that he may, in fact, be the senior figure of the two. Certainly the popularity of his inventions is attested to by the almost unbroken fascination people have had for his satyrs and grotesque dragons from the 16th century to the present day.