Auction on
11 July 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) -
28, rue Pierre-Mendès-France - 27400 Louviers
Pietro Taccà was the master of early 17th-century large-scale princely and royal statuary, but this unusual modello shows that the Florentine sculptor felt equally at home with baroque fantasy.
Attributed to Pietro Taccà (1577–1640), Florence, 17th century, bronze modello with a medal patina, h. 22 cm/8.66 in. Estimate: €60,000/65,000
Attributed to Pietro Taccà (1577–1640), Florence, 17th century, bronze modello with a medal patina, h. 22 cm/8.66 in. Estimate: €60,000/65,000
The craze for grotesques, one of the most popular ornamental features during the Renaissance , started with the accidental discovery in the late 15 th century of the lavish frescoes in Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome, where the foliage looks as though it is giving birth to hybridized, continuously metamorphosing fantasy characters. t his opulent décor inspired some of the weirdest…
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