Lot 425
  • 425

An Italian gilt-bronze Cristo Morto, after a model by Giambologna (1529-1608), early 17th century, Florence

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • bronze

Provenance

London Art Market

Exhibited

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim collects ion, 3 March-11 September 1988, cat. no. 30

Literature

L. Camins, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim collects ion, San Francisco, 1988, no. 30, pp. 88-89
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim collects ion, New York, 2008, no. 28, pp. 68-69

Catalogue Note

The present Cristo Morto is an example of Giambologna's celebrated model, the primary versions of which are an ungilt Corpus in the convent of Santa Maria degli Angiolini, and a gilt one in the convent of San Marco, both in Florence.  Like many made later in the lifet.mes of Giambologna or after his death, it is slightly smaller than the earliest versions.

RELATED LITERATURE

C. Avery and A. Radcliffe (eds.), Giambologna 1529-1608: Sculptor to the Medici, 1978, pp. 45-47 and pp. 143-146, cat. nos. 105-111