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A bronze after Michelangelo’s model for ‘Earth’
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 462-469
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Author:
Krahn, Volker (Krahn, Volker)
Subjects
art literature:
Vasari, Giorgio / Parronchi, Alessandro / Bambach, Carmen C., New York, United States
artists:
Michelangelo / Tribolo, Niccolò / Porta, Guglielmo della / Perino del Vaga
buildings:
San Lorenzo, New Sacristy, Florence, Italy
dates:
1500-1599
media:
Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany
patrons:
Medici family
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Attributions / Attribution / Dating / Style / Modelli / Copies / Casts (sculpture) / Nudes / Iconography / Christian iconography
works:
Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Earth, after a model here attributed to Michelangelo. Probably c.1600. Bronze, height 28.8 cm. (Bayerishes Nationalmuseum, Munich; photograph Walter Haberland).
Attributed works:
10. Nude female figure, by Michelangelo. c.1530. Unfired clay, height 35 cm. (Casa Buonarroti, Florence).
Attributed works:
2–4. Fig.1 from alternate angles.
Attributed works:
5. Studies of a model of a standing nude woman, by Guglielmo della Porta. 1540–50. Pen and brown ink on paper, 15.4 by 11.2 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).
Attributed works:
6. Earth, by Tommaso Arrighetti after a marble by Niccolò Tribolo. Before 1759. Pen and ink on paper, height 12 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
7. Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici, New Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence, by Michelangelo. 1521–34. Marble. (Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
8. Studies of bases for the New Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence, by Michelangelo. 1524. Red chalk and pen on paper, 28.3 by 21.4 cm. (Casa Buonarroti, Florence; Scala Images).
Attributed works:
9. Study after an antique torso, by Michelangelo. c.1523–26. Black chalk on paper, 25.6 by 18 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
11. Venus with a mirror, Antique torso with later additions. Marble, height 39 cm. (Villa Corsini, Castello).
Western art unattributed:
12. Vanitas, Florence. Mid-sixteenth century. Engraving, 35.8 by 25 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin).