Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
ATTRIBUTED TO GIACOMO ANTONIO MORO | HOLY FAMILY ADORED BY SAINTS JOHN THE BAPTIST, FRANCIS, ANTHONY AND GEORGE
Lot Closed
May 27, 03:07 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ATTRIBUTED TO GIACOMO ANTONIO MORO
active circa 1600-1624
HOLY FAMILY ADORED BY SAINTS JOHN THE BAPTIST, FRANCIS, ANTHONY AND GEORGE
bronze, in an ebonised wood frame
with a label to the reverse of the frame inscribed 605
bronze: 18 by 14cm., 7⅛ by 5½in.; frame: 23.5 by 29.5cm., 9¼ by 11⅝in.
Probably cast in Rome, circa 1600-1625.
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Private Collection, USA
This fine bronze belongs to a group of plaques of the same subject traditionally associated with Francesco Fanelli (1577- after 1658). However, a more convincing attribution to the Milanese-born sculptor Giacomo Antonio Moro has been proposed based on a version initialled GAM to the reverse, which sold at Christie's, London, on 9 December 1980, lot 170. Moro was a medallist and coin engraver who was Master of the Papal Mint from 1610 until 1624, under Paul V and Gregory XV.
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Avery and K. C. Keeble, Florentine Baroque Bronzes and Other Objects of Art, exh. cat. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, pp. 34-35; F. Rossi, La Collezione Mario Scaglia. Placchette, Bergamo, 2011, vol. I, pp. 463-464, no. XIII.9