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( Originally Published Early 1900's ) FLORENTINE, 1430–1484 Almost every artist evolves a type of face which he repeats throughout his work and it is interesting to trace between the two sculptures by Mino da Fiesole in the Altman bequest similarities in general conception and in detail, even though one is a portrait and the other an imaginative presentation of a sacred personage. Despite the fact that age is rep-resented in the bust of a priest and youth in the head of Saint John, both faces have the same pointed oval outline, the same sensitive nose, and the same round eyes with lids overlapping at the corners. The type is hardly beautiful, but Florentine sculptors sought for other things than beauty and the young Baptist is alert, vigorous, and infused with the lively realism of all Mino's work. The bust was, until recently, the property of the Conte Rasponi Spinelli of Florence. |
Benjamin Altman Collection: The Madonna And Child - Luca Della Robbia The Young Saint John Baptist - Mino Da Fiesole Virtue Overcoming Vice - Gian Bologna Peace And War By Alessandro Vittoria - Venetian, 1525–1608 Madonna And Child - Antonio Rossellino Madonna And Child - Donatello Venus And Neptune - Christophe Gabriel Allegrain The Young Saint John Baptist - Donatello Bust Of A Man - Roman, First Century B.c. To First Century A.d. Triton - Adriaen De Vries Read More Articles About: Benjamin Altman Collection |
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