VITTORIA Alenssandro (1528-1608). (Workshop).... Lot 12

VITTORIA Alenssandro (1528-1608). (Workshop). "The death of Lucretia". Bronze with brown patina. Northern Italy XVIIè. H.without base 14. H.total 24. This statue evokes the episode of the death of Lucretia who commits suicide by piercing her left breast, following the rape she had undergone and which led to the end of the monarchy in Rome. It is particularly refined and delicate. The fineness of the details and the modeling is remarkable, hair, face etc. The casting, the chasing and the patina of our work correspond perfectly to the Venetian workshops of the 16th and early 17th century. References: A similar figure on a bronze pedestal is in the collection of the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, under the number 43.584. Literature: Collana di Artisti Trentini , ALESSANDRO VIRRORIA , Trento 1960. Tav.27, pp 99, 49. The author mentions the discovery of this statuette by Planiscig in the Vigor collection in Vienna citing "a figure in a serpentine position has the dynamic drammaticissimo.