Circle of Alessandro Vittoria (1525-1608) | Italian, Venice, early 17th century | The Evangelists John and Matthew

Cyril Humphris, London;
Sotheby's New York, 29 January 2010, lot 404

The facial types, poses, and the style of the drapery on this pair of bronzes are analogous to Vittoria's figure of Winter (circa 1585) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (see Bacchi, op. cit., no. 81) and the group of four Evangelists (particularly the John and Mark) now in the Capodimonte, Naples (Kryza-Gersch, op. cit., fig. 224). The letters FFP on each of the bases may refer to the patron who commissioned the figures.

RELATED LITERATURE
C. Kryza-Gersch, 'New Light on Nicolò Roccatagliata and his son Sebastian Nicolini', Nuovi Studi, vol. 5, 1998, anno III, pp. 111-126 and pls. 192-230; Bacchi et. al., 1999, pp. 360-363; A. Bacchi et al., "La bellissima maniera": Alessandro Vittoria e la scultura veneta del Cinquecento, Trento, 1999