Lot n° 81
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PORTRAIT of a Tuscan Patrician. Terracotta, Renaissance styl - Lot 81
PORTRAIT of a Tuscan Patrician. Terracotta, Renaissance style. (Restorations). H.62 L.53 P.30. The nineteenth century is undoubtedly the century of historicism. In order to break with the neo-classical "grand style" that some considered boring in the salons, sculptors turned to 15th century Florence. The rediscovery of primitive sculpture allowed for a revaluation of Renaissance art. In a century full of legends and myths, the romantic mythification of the great humanist figures of Lorenzo de Medici or Michelangelo fascinates. It was the flowering of neo-Renaissance art. This remarkable bust is an echo of this. Its typology evokes that of the famous busts of Florentine notables made by Benedetto Da Maiano or Verrochio. These portraits, which adorned the villas of the patricians of the time, were produced by 19th-century terracotta artists at the request of wealthy patrons wishing to recreate the Florence of the Medicis in their luxurious homes. The Louvre holds one of these neo-Renaissance busts in its collections, from the collection of Baron Jean-Charles Davillier, which is comparable in every way to our work.
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