Renaissance Bronze

  • Gothic German Influences on Two Lombard Paxes, ca. 1500

    Gothic German Influences on Two Lombard Paxes, ca. 1500

    Examining two rare Lombard paxes inspired by German designs or borrowed from reliefs of German origin.

  • Michelangelo’s Pieta in Bronze

    Michelangelo’s Pieta in Bronze

    A popular pax after Michelangelo’s Pieta for Vittoria Colonna and a Deposition pax are here suggested as the product of Ludovico and/or Jacopo del Duca while a later variant of Michelangelo’s Pieta, formed as a pax, is given to a Venetian workshop active in the first part of the 17th century.

  • Head of Pan – Lorenzo, Michelangelo, Attila and a lost plaquette prototype

    Head of Pan – Lorenzo, Michelangelo, Attila and a lost plaquette prototype

    by Michael Riddick Download / Preview High-resolution PDFDownload / Preview Italian version translated courtesy of Sandro Ubertazzi The prototype and plaquette casts of the Head of Pan The present article concerns itself with the discovery of an engraved rock crystal, believed lost, which served as the master model for a bronze plaquette relief of a…