Lot 149
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AN ITALIAN PLASTER MODEL OF THE HEAD OF DAVID
AN ITALIAN PLASTER MODEL OF THE HEAD OF DAVID

AFTER MICHELANGELO, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

Details
AN ITALIAN PLASTER MODEL OF THE HEAD OF DAVID
AFTER MICHELANGELO, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
46½ in. (118 cm.) high
Provenance
Giovanni Antognazzi, Italy.
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

Purchased from the workshop of Giovanni Antognazzi, the tide line to the face reputedly from the Florentine flood of 1966.
This actual size plaster is after Michelangelos's marble sculpture of David of 1501-04 in the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence.

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