Renaissance Bronze

  • Supplementary Notes on Michelangelo’s Crucifix for Vittoria Colonna and the rediscovery of a Crucifix by Michelangelo brought to Spain by Juan Bautista Franconio

    Supplementary Notes on Michelangelo’s Crucifix for Vittoria Colonna and the rediscovery of a Crucifix by Michelangelo brought to Spain by Juan Bautista Franconio

    Comparative evidence is presented in support of a rediscovered crucifix by Michelangelo, brought from Rome to Seville in 1597. Also discussed is the alloy analysis of this crucifix which points to the theorized presence of Michelangelo’s original model being retained in the successive workshops of Guglielmo della Porta and Bastiano Torrigiani. Further elaborations are presented…

  • Michelangelo’s Crucifix for Vittoria Colonna

    Michelangelo’s Crucifix for Vittoria Colonna

    A devotional crucifix, whose model is believed to be the work of Michelangelo, is known preserved by a minority of casts in silver and bronze, the finest of which, is examined here. The crucifix is here suggested as made for Michelangelo’s friend, Vittoria Colonna, as a private gift or possible commission. A census of casts…

  • 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.