AFTER A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ITALIAN, FLORENCE,...

Hammer

£550

AFTER A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ITALIAN, FLORENCE, Bronze, 18th CENTURY, PACING BULL. 14 cm x 14 cm. Note: This bronze of a pacing bull is probably later cast, possibly Northern cast of a model that ultimately derives from a Giambologna invention, which gave rise to a large corpus of variants and replicas. Documentation confirms the existence of multiple bronze bulls produced by Giambologna and his studio as well as his collaborator Antonio Susini during the master’s lifetime and in the years immediately following his death in 1608. These early bronze statuettes can be considered direct translations of Giambologna’s first Pensiero. The earliest evidence of his composition being cast in bronze likely dates to 1573, when Girolamo di Zanobi Portigiani produced a bull apparently upon the request of Giambologna’s patron, the Florentine nobleman Jacopo di Alamanno Salviati, as recently shown by Dimitrios Zikos and Patricia Wengraf.