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Centauro.
Centauro.
Year
XV secolo seconda metà
Materials
bronzo
Inventory
1235/B
Dimensions
Diametro: 4,8 cm
Definition
placchetta
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Dall'antico
Cultural scope
artigianato valdostano
Description
Placchetta ovale raffigurante Centauro.
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La placchetta è tratta da un calco di un cammeo ins ardoncia di età imperiale oggi al Museo di Napoli (inv. 25889).
La placchetta è probabilmente di produzione fiorentina e fu tratta dalla gemma prima che vi fosse inciso l'ex gemmis LAVR.R.MED. Lo stesso soggetto si trova in uno dei medaglioni del cortile del Palazzo Medici-Riccardi e si ripete anche sul dorso della corazza di Oloferne, nella Giuditta di Donatello (Dacos 1973, p. 161, scheda 11). Bange ha osservato che lo stesso centauro è anche nel fastigio di uno dei finestroni del Duomo di Como.
Bibliography
Emile Molinier, Les bronzes de la Reinassance. Les plaquettes. Catalogue raisonné, 1886,
Ernst Friedrich Bange, Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen, Italianischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock . 2.2, Reliefs una Plaketten, 1922,
John Pope-Hennessy, Reinassance bronzes from the Samuel Krell collection, 1965,
Placchette: secoli XV-XVIII nel Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1996
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