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TWO BRONZE AND MARBLE BUSTS OF EMPERORS MARCUS AURELIUS AND LUCIUS VERUS

Lot 22
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027480
Lot 22 | TWO BRONZE AND MARBLE BUSTS OF EMPERORS MARCUS AURELIUS AND LUCIUS VERUS
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 400 000
TWO BRONZE AND MARBLE BUSTS OF EMPERORS MARCUS AURELIUS AND LUCIUS VERUS

ITALIAN, THE HEADS MID-16TH CENTURY, THE ASSOCIATED SHOULDERS 16TH CENTURY

The pupils in the eyes of Marcus Aurelius are pierced; each on a later oval marble socle

Marcus Aurelius: 27 in. (69 cm.) high; 33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high, overall

Lucius Verus: 24 in. (61 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) high, overall





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

H. Weihrauch, ed., Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München: Die Bildwerke in Bronze und in anderen Metallen, vol. XIII, Munich, 1956, p. 77S, no. 102.

K. Fittschen, ‘Sul ruolo del ritratto antico nell’arte italiana,’ Memoria dell’antico nell’arte italiana, vol. II, Turin, 1985, p. 405, no. 72.

I. Favaretto, ‘La fortuna del ritratto antico nelle collezione venete di antichità: originali, copie e invenzione,’ Bolletino d’Arte LXXVIII, no. 79, May-June 1993, pp. 68-72.

A. Luchs, Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, 1490-1530, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 108-109, fig. 193.

A. Boström, ‘Ludovico Lombardo and the Taste for the all’Antica Bust in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome', Large Bronzes in the Renaissance, CASVA, Symposium Papers XLI, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, pp. 155-179.

V. Avery, ‘The Production, Display and Reception of Bronze Heads and Busts in Renaissance Venice and Padua: Surrogate Antiques,’ Kopf / Bild: Die Büste in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Berlin and Munich, 2007, pp. 75-112.

E. Lamouche, Renaissance Masterpieces of the Michael Hall Collection, exh. cat. Paris, 2013.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze, Marble, Stone
Art style:Renaissance
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures
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