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An Italian gilt-bronze Cristo Vivo, 16th century, possibly Venetian
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- gilt-bronze
on modern cross.
Exhibited
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 March-11 September 1988, cat. no. 11
Literature
L. Camins, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, San Francisco, 1988, no. 11, pp. 43-45
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 42, p. 95
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 42, p. 95
Catalogue Note
The design of the present corpus is loosely based upon a drawing by Michelangelo now in the British Museum (1895,0915.504). The delicate expression and elongated limbs have been associated with the Venetian followers of Jacopo Sansovino.