Portrait Bust of a Venetian Gentleman
Artist: Danese Cattaneo (Italian (Venice), ca. 1510-1572)
Date: about 1547-1560
Dimensions:
22 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 11 3/8 in. (56.2 x 46 x 28.9 cm)
Medium: bronze
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1995.11
Label Text:Writing in 1568, artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari said of Venetian sculptor Danese Cattaneo that he is “not only an excellent sculptor, but also a good and much extolled poet as his works clearly demonstrate, on which account he has always had association and sound friendship with the greatest men and choicest spirits of our age.”
Cattaneo renders the unknown man as a forceful, intelligent personality with his formal attire and introspective stare. Parallels can be drawn between the textured surface, especially the hair and beard, and the expressive dabs and brushstrokes of Venetian painters of the mid-to-late 1500s, such as Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Bassano.
Cattaneo renders the unknown man as a forceful, intelligent personality with his formal attire and introspective stare. Parallels can be drawn between the textured surface, especially the hair and beard, and the expressive dabs and brushstrokes of Venetian painters of the mid-to-late 1500s, such as Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Bassano.
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