
Property From the Martello Collection
Bust of a Young Woman
Auction Closed
February 1, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property From the Martello Collection
Antonio de’ Bardi Giovanni Minello
Padua circa 1465 – Venice 1529
Bust of a Young Woman
circa 1520s
marble
height of bust, without green marble socle: 8 ⅞ in.; 22.5 cm.
Alessandro Morandotti (1909-1979), Rome;
Countess Ruth Costantino (d. 1981), New York, before 1963;
Thence by descent to the present collector.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, long-term loan, 2004 - 2023.
A. M. Schulz, "Two new works by Antonio Minello," in Burlington Magazine 137, no. 1113 (December 1995), pp. 805-806, reproduced figs. 21, 22;
A. Luchs, Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, Cambridge 1995, pp. 105-106, 299, reproduced figs. 188, 189;
R. Roani, in In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece, exhibition catalogue, Mina Gregori (ed.), vol. I, Athens 2004, pp. 438-439, cat no. X.19;
Gli Este a Ferrara: Il camerino di alabastro: Antonio Lombardo e la sculptura all’antica, exhibition catalogue, Matteo Ceriana (ed.), Milan 2004, p. 210;
A. Luchs, in Tulio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C. 2009, pp. 82-85, cat. no. 5;
A. M. Schulz, The Sculpture of Tullio Lombardo, London/Turnhout 2014, p. 58, cat. no. 66;
A. Bacchi, "Rinascimento Privato," in The Adventures of a Renaissance Sculpture: Antonio Minello’s Apollo from Padua to Rome and Vienna, Walter Padovani (ed.), Milan 2019, p. 55, reproduced fig. 30.
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