WORKSHOP OF SEVERO DA RAVENNA, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY

细节

A BRONZE INKWELL IN THE FORM OF ATLAS SUPPORTING THE GLOBE OF HEAVEN
WORKSHOP OF SEVERO DA RAVENNA, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY
Atlas depicted crouching on his right knee, supporting himself with his left hand, and supporting the globe on his right shoulder; reddish brown patina with coppery high points; the lid of the globe lacking; minor losses
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high

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拍品专文

The bronze figure of Atlas offered here derives from the same model used to cast the figure of Atlas Supporting the Globe of Heaven in the Frick Collection, New York (see https://collections.frick.org/Obj334$3112). Almost certainly cast within the workshop of the Paduan master Severo da Ravenna sometime in the first half of the 16th century, the bronze offered here would have functioned as in oil lamp and, as with the Frick example, may also have had an inkwell attached to the base.