AFTER SEVERO CALZETTA DA RAVENNA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1496-1543), ITALIAN, PROBABLY PADUA, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY | KNEELING SATYR

Auction Closed

December 3, 02:41 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Bronzes from the Robert Mayer Collection, Vienna

AFTER SEVERO CALZETTA DA RAVENNA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1496-1543)

ITALIAN, PROBABLY PADUA, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

KNEELING SATYR

bronze, on a serpentine marble base

bronze: 18.2cm., 7⅛in.

base: 5cm., 2in.

Robert Rudolf Theodor Mayer (1874-1974), Vienna;

thence by descent to the present owner

The present bronze forms a mirror-image of Severo da Ravenna's famous Kneeling Satyr, which was cast by his workshop in numerous variants. Riccio's and Severo's models were adapted freely by later Paduan bronze founders, primarily for utilitarian objects. The rather soft modelling of the present figure's face and anatomy suggests such a later dating.

RELATED LITERATURE

C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, 'Severo Calzetta da Ravenna, New Discoveries', in J. Rasmussen (ed.) Studien zum Europäischen Kunsthandwerk, Festschrift Yvonne Hackenbroch, Munich, 1983, pp. 107-122