Workshop of Lorenzo Bartolini

This fine marble figure is carved after one of the most famous paintings in the world, Titian's Venus of Urbino (1543) in the Galleria degli Uffizi. The present group appears to have been made in the workshop of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini. John Kenworthy-Browne has noted that Bartolini carved a life-size version of Titian's Venus of Urbino, now in the One&Only Ocean Club, Paradise Island, Bahamas (op. cit.). An attribution to the Bartolini workshop for the present marble therefore seems justified, especially given the high quality of the carving.

RELATED LITERATURE

S. Bietoletti, A. Caputo and F. Falletti, Lorenzo Bartolini atti delle giornate di studio, exh. cat. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, 2013, p. 56, fig. 12