Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
ROME, ITALY | FLORA FARNESE
Lot Closed
May 27, 03:14 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ROME, ITALY
18th century
After the Antique
FLORA FARNESE
terracotta
height: 70cm., 27½in.
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The Flora Farnese is one of the iconic ancient marbles of the celebrated Farnese collection, which was originally displayed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. A very similar terracotta version of the Flora Farnese from the collection of the Fürsten Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Schloss Schillingsfürst, was sold in these rooms on 6 December 2011, lot 83.
RELATED LITERATURE
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1600, New Haven and Yale, 1981, pp. 217-218, no. 41