Friday, November 8, 2024

Italian Bronze

Anonymous Italian Artist
Appliqué with Tritons and Dolphins
ca. 1450-1500
gilt bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Beheading of St Paul
16th century
bronze relief
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Constantia (Ox and Lion)
16th century
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist (Emilia)
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1550-1600
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist (Ferrara)
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1470-1500
bronze relief
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Head of Youth
15th century
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Hercules and Antaeus
16th century
bronze statuette with traces of gilding
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Anonymous Italian Artist
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
16th century
bronze statuette
Harvard Art Museums

Anonymous Italian Artist (Mantua)
A Triumph
ca. 1600-1625
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist (Padua)
Door Knocker
ca. 1475-1525
bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist (Padua)
Lamp
16th century
bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1550-1600
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1550
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Portrait of Beatrice Roverella
ca. 1540-50
bronze relief
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Satyr
16th century
bronze statuette
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Anonymous Italian Artist (Venice)
Head of Marcus Aurelius
16th century
bronze
Harvard Art Museums

The Magi

Toward world's end, through the bare
beginnings of winter, they are traveling again.
How many winters have we seen it happen,
watched the same sign, come forward as they pass
cities sprung around this route their gold
engraved on the desert, and yet
held our peace, these
being the Wise, come to see at the accustomed hour
nothing changed: roofs, the barn
blazing in darkness, all they wish to see.

– Louise Glück (1975)