| Artist | |
|---|---|
| Culture | Italian |
| Date | mid-16th century |
| Object type | relief |
| Medium, technique | terracotta |
| Dimensions | 24.5 × 15.5 × 5 cm, 2 kg |
| Inventory number | 1125 |
| Collection | Sculptures |
| On view | Museum of Fine Arts, Second Floor, European Sculpture 1350-1800, Gallery 2 |
This small terracotta was a sketch (bozzetto) and it shows the sculptor’s initial ideas fixed in clay as quickly as possible. The traces of tools and the
imprints of the artist’s fingers are visible on the rough surface. The sculpture, originally made of clay, seems to have been housed in the workshop for a long time, as later it was fired with a dusty surface. Its decorated gilt frame was made and added to the sculpture later on. The sculpture in Budapest recalls Sansovino’s figure of Saint Mark the Evangelist, which is part of a bronze relief
(ca. 1536) on the tribune of the choir of the church of San Marco in Venice. On the basis of their stylistic correspondence the terracotta in Budapest can be considered as a work by an artist in the sculptor’s Venetian circle.
Balogh, Jolán, Katalog der ausländischen Bildwerke des Museums der bildenden Künste in Budapest, IV – XVIII. Jahrhundert: 1. Textband Bd. 1, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, p. 161., no. 208.
This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.
