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Daniel Katz Ltd
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Medium
Terracotta
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Dimensions
39.00cm wide
42.50cm high
(15.35 inches wide 16.73 inches high)
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Literature:
Biographical references:
- Klaus Lankheit, Florentinische Barockplastik. Die Kunst am Hofe der letzten Medici 1670-1743, 1962, pp. 165-167.
- Repertorio della scultura fiorentina del Seicento e Settecento, ed. by Giovanni Pratesi; biographies by Silvia Blasio, 3 vols., 1993, pp. 55-56, pls. 404-445.
- The dictionary of art, ed. by Jane Turner, Macmillan 1996, and rev. ed. online, www.groveart.com, entry by Alexander Kader.
- Dimitrios Zikos, Giuseppe Piamontini: il Sacrificio di Isacco …, exhib. cat., Galleria Carlo Orsi, Milan, September 2005, passim.
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Description / Expertise
This refined composition - described as Riposo di Diana - is included in a list of moulds which Giovanni Battista Piamontini, the sculptor’s son, sold to Marchese Carlo Ginori, founder of the Doccia manufactory. Piamontini’s authorship is further supported by stylistic elements found in other bronzes by Piamontini, such as the hounds and flowers on rocks in Meleager which was acquired by the Martelli family from Piamontini. The figure and features of Diana may also be compared with the seated female figures in Bacchus and Ariadne and Venus and Cupid (works by Piamontini sometimes attributed to Foggini). Piamontini’s authorship of all these compositions is discussed in a recent publication by Dimitrios Zikos (cited above).
The present fired clay model is the only record of Piamontini’s Riposo di Diana - although a cast in bronze belonged to Giuseppe Borri in the mid-18th century (whereabouts unknown).
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