ID 1027480
Lot 22 | TWO BRONZE AND MARBLE BUSTS OF EMPERORS MARCUS AURELIUS AND LUCIUS VERUS
Valeur estimée
$ 250 000 – 400 000
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.
| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
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| Matériel: | Bronce, Marbre, Calcul |
| Style artistique: | Renaissance |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Sculptures |
| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
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| Matériel: | Bronce, Marbre, Calcul |
| Style artistique: | Renaissance |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Sculptures |
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