Tag: Florence
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Pietro Torrigiani – A St. Francis of Paola and ideas concerning his years before Spain
Vasari notes that Pietro Torrigiano carved sculptures in wood but no such works have been identified. A sculpture of St. Francis of Paola may possibly be the first and its subject may also suggest Torrigiano was active in Sicily before leaving Italy for Portugal and/or Spain.
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Lorenzo’s son, from Life: a possible model, from life, of Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici
The discovery of a possible workshop model preserving a cast life-mask of Piero the Unfortunate, son of Lorenzo de’ Medici and a hypothesis concerning the terracotta Bust of a Youth at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello.
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A proposal that the Rothschild bronzes, attributed to Michelangelo, are instead the work of Francesco da Sangallo
A visual comparison and historical survey is made between the work of Francesco da Sangallo and a bronze group of nude men riding beasts, presently attributed to Michelangelo.