Lot 439: AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS, LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE

AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS, LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE red-brown patina beneath black lacquer, upon cylindrical green marble base. height 11 in., 27.9 cm

M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 49, pp. 105

The contrapposto and broadly handled features of the present figure are consistent with the style of 16th century Venetian sculptors such as Vittoria, Campagna, Aspetti, and Roccatagliata.

RELATED LITERATURE

See L. Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance, 1921, nos. 603-604 for comparable female allegorical figures.