Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Italian Bronzes (Renaissance and Mannerist) in Vienna

Bertoldo di Giovanni
Bellerophon with Pegasus
ca. 1481-82
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Sculptor working in Mantua
Standing Youth with Drapery
ca. 1500
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Sculptor working in Padua
Bound Marsyas
16th century
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Country Faunes, the Gods of Woods, the Satyrs of his kin,
The Mount Olympus whose renowne did ere that time begin,
And all the Nymphes, and all that in those mountaines kept their sheepe,
Or grazèd cattell thereabouts, did for this Satyr weepe.
The fruitfull earth waxt moyst therewith, and moysted did receyve
Their teares, and in hir bowels deepe did of the same conceyve.
And when that she had turnèd them to water, by and by
She sent them forth againe aloft to see the open Skie.
The River that doth rise thereof beginning there his race,
In verie deepe and shoring bankes to Seaward runnes a pace
Through Phrygie, and according as the Satyr, so the streame
Is called Marsyas, of the brookes the cleerest in that Realme.

– from book six of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding (1567)

Anonymous Sculptor working in Italy
Rearing Horse
ca. 1500-1550
gilt-bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

attributed to Francesco da Sant' Agata
Standing Warrior
before 1528
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Severo da Ravenna
The Spinario
(copy of antique sculpture)
ca. 1530
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Niccolò Tribolo
Oil Lamp in the form of a Seated Satyr with a Mask
ca. 1545
bronze
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Sculptor working in Florence
Young Hercules
ca. 1545-50
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Sculptor working in Florence
Pan and Daphnis
(copy of antique sculpture)
ca. 1550
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Alessandro Vittoria
Minerva
ca. 1550-55
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Alessandro Vittoria
Jupiter
ca. 1590-1600
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Sculptor working in Italy
Rearing Horse
ca. 1580-1600
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

attributed to Agostino Rubini
Herm
ca. 1590-1600
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

attributed to Niccolò Roccatagliata
Adam
ca. 1625-30
bronze statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna