A PLASTER MODEL OF A HORSES HEAD FROM THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ERASMO DA NARNI, KNOWN AS GATTAMELATA
A PLASTER MODEL OF A HORSES HEAD FROM THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ERASMO DA NARNI, KNOWN AS GATTAMELATA

AFTER DONATELLO, MODERN

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A PLASTER MODEL OF A HORSES HEAD FROM THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ERASMO DA NARNI, KNOWN AS GATTAMELATA
AFTER DONATELLO, MODERN
39½ in. (83 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide
Literature
M. Binney, 'Aynhoe Park', Country Life, July 2008, p. 84.
J. Thornicroft, 'The House of Sculpture', Architectural Digest, Russia, October 2011, pp. 274-283.
R.Frederiksen-E.Marchand. Plaster Casts, Berlin-New York, 2010, p. 629, fig. 35.3.

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Lot Essay

Donatello's bronze original in the Piazza del Santo, Padua, was the first Renaissance equestrian statue, circa 1445, to commemorate the condottiero Erasmo da Narni.
The present example was cast from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York's original cast now in an institutional collection.

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