PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
Raffaello Romanelli
ITALIAN
COURTSHIP AT THE WELL
COURTSHIP AT THE WELL
Details & Cataloguing
19th Century Furniture and Decorative Art
|
New York
New York
Raffaello Romanelli
1856 - 1928
ITALIAN
COURTSHIP AT THE WELL
COURTSHIP AT THE WELL
signed R. Romanelli / Firenze
white Carrara marble
height 40 in.
102 cm
Read Condition Report
Read Condition Report
white Carrara marble
height 40 in.
102 cm
Catalogue Note
In 1915 the San Francisco Examiner described Raffaello Romanelli as ‘to Italy what Rodin is to France’ (11 June 1915). Professor Raffaello was the second generation of a dynasty of Florentine sculptors active from the 1820s. Like his father, Pasquale, and his son, Romano, he worked in a traditional style, making numerous public monuments as well as more commercial subject marbles and portrait busts. At the height of his career, around the turn of the century, Raffaello had an international reputation and was regarded by many as ‘Italy’s greatest living sculptor’ (The Anglo-American Gazette, Nice, 14 March 1908). His model for the equestrian monument to Czar Alexander II of 1914 received widespread acclaim.
Suggested Lots
19th Century Furniture and Decorative Art
|
New York
New York
