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Sculptures > 1700 > A bronze brown patina casket, from a model of Severo da Ravenna (active in Ravenna, Italy, around 1496 - 1543), second half of the eighteenth century.
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| A bronze brown patina casket, from a model of Severo da Ravenna (active in Ravenna, Italy, around 1496 - 1543), second half of the eighteenth century. | Description: Our casket was casted after a early sixteenth century model by Severo da Ravenna, inspired by the Roman period sarcophagi.
Severo, the son of a sculptor of Ferrara, was probably born in Ravenna (according to some documents he was still in the city in 1496). In 1500 he moved to Padua that he left in 1509 to go back to Ravenna where he established a successful small bronzes workshop.
Our casket is a fine replica made in the neo-classical period, when interest in ancient art, especially in Greek - Roman art, influenced all the arts.
The casket's four sides are in bas-relief. The longer sides show two centaurs, bearing two Naiads on their shoulders and, between them, a crown made of two cornucopias with, at its center, a male bust.
On the shorter two sides we can find a head of a Gorgon above a wreath.
The lid shows a border with palmettes,a pair of winged putti supporting a long ribbon and,in the middle, a crown of laurel with a shield.
The casket legs are shaped as dolphin heads.
We can find others examples of this model in a number of other versions in public and private collections (with different legs, in square shape, with the lid in the shape of a roof).
A similar casket, that belonged to the Prussian Kunstkammer, supported by four turtles, can be found in the Gallery of Sculptures (Inv. No. 1806) of the Kunstgewerbemuseum , the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. It was purchased in London in 1891 from the collection Falcke.
A model (inv. No. OA716) that has clear similarities to our casket, can be found in the Louvre, in Paris. It cames from the donation Sauvageot (1856) and is described as follows: 'D'apres un modele de Severo da Ravenna. Ecritoire. Bronze a patine brune.'
Provenance: collection of the artist and antiquarian Attilio Simonetti (Rome 1843 - 1925), Rome.
For more information, please refer to the bibliography below, which includes reference to the other existing versions of the casket.
Bibliography:
Bange, 1922, n° 625, 626
Bode, 1930, n° 278
J. Pope- Hennessy, Renaissance bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, pp. 133-34, n° 491, fig. 478-80
Pechstein, Bronzen, No. 83
J. Pope- Hennessy and A.F. Radcliffe, The Frick Collection III Italian sculpture, New York 1970, Number of location: 1916.2.32
W.D. Wixom, Renaissance bronzes from Ohio collections, exh.cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1975 No. 76
A. Radcliffe, Thyssen- Bornemisza Collection, Renaissance and later Sculputure, London, 1992, No. 31, p. 194-203.
C. Avery, La Spezia, Museo Civico Amedeo Lia - Sculture, Bronzetti, Placchette, Medaglie, La Spezia, 1998, no. 60. | | Age: second half of the eighteenth century | | Dimensions: 3 x 8 1/4 x 5 inc. | | Price: € 2.800,00 | | Item n°: RC 162 |
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