ESCUELA ITALIANA S. XVIII Lot n° 47

With her head tilted towards her chest, tilted to the right, she frames her face with her hair pulled back in graceful curls to the right and falling in soft waves on her shoulders. His eyes are closed and he wears a thick curly beard worked like his hair. Of slender proportions, Mannerist influence, has a sunken belly can be seen in his torso a contained size that slightly marks the details. He is covered by a cloth of purity drawn to his right side and his arms rise slightly above his head. This piece of eboraria is a good example of how the models of the master Guglielmo Della Porta (1500-1577) were kept in the Italian school even in the eighteenth century. During the last quarter of the 16th century, Della Porta dominated the sculptural panorama of Rome and her model of Copus Christis was maintained for decades throughout Europe, with the influence of her other also being detected in small works of ivory from later periods. 36 x 30 cmm ivory