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Description: | Artist: Sansovino, Jacopo (Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti) - 1486-27.XI.1570; Architect, Roma, Venezia; Date(s): circa 1650 - circa 1750; Classification(s): sculpture, figure, patinating, bronze, cast, patinated black and polished; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.M.201-1912]
Description: Bronze with black patina; slightly polished. The figure stands with the weight of the body resting on the right leg and the left leg breaks forward. The bearded head looks down to the left, his right arm raised in front of his chest and pointing to the right. His left arm and shoulder are bare and his left hand holds a book. The mantle, worn over a coat of skins, swirls over his left leg above the knee, leaving bare the lower part of both legs, and falls to the ground at the back. It stands on a shallow square bronze base, mounted on a marble plinth. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture figure Sansovino, Jacopo (Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti) | Temporal: | name=17th-18th Century; start=1650; end=1750 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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