A BRONZE MODEL OF A TRITON RIDING A TORTOISE
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE PROFESSOR JOHN GOLDING
A BRONZE MODEL OF A TRITON RIDING A TORTOISE

CIRCLE OF GIANLORENZO BERNINI (1598-1680), ROMAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE MODEL OF A TRITON RIDING A TORTOISE
CIRCLE OF GIANLORENZO BERNINI (1598-1680), ROMAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
On an integrally cast octagonal base; medium brown patina with reddish-brown high points; minor dents and casting flaws
5¾ in. (14.7 cm.) high
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540-Present Day, Oxford, 1992, I, p. 314-5, no. 245.

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Although some scholars have attributed the model upon which this bronze is based to a Venetian sculptor of the mid-16th century, it also relates closely to the triton figures that feature in designs and bozzetti for Roman fountains executed by Gianlorenzo Bernini in the first half of the 17th century. Compositionally and stylistically, it is particularly close to the four tritons surrounding the Moor on the Fontana dei Mori in Rome (see C. Avery, Bernini - Genius of the Baroque, London, 1997, fig. 296).