Lot 289
  • 289

An Italian gilt-bronze Cristo Vivo, 16th century, possibly Venetian

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • gilt-bronze

Exhibited

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, March 3-September 11, 1988, cat. no. 11

Literature

L. Camins, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, San Francisco, 1988, no. 11, pp. 43-45
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 42, p. 95

Catalogue Note

The design of the present corpus is loosely based upon a drawing by Michelangelo now in the British Museum (1895,0915.504).  The delicate expression and elongated limbs have been associated with the Venetian followers of Jacopo Sansovino.