Baccio Bandinelli

c. 1544

Nicolò della Casa, after Baccio Bandinelli

Associated Names
Nicolò della Casa

Artist, French, active c. 1543 - active 1547

Baccio Bandinelli

Artist After, Florentine, 1488/1493 - 1560

The engraving depicts a bearded man seated, wearing a hat with a wide brim. He has a long, wavy beard and intense facial expression, with deep-set eyes and furrowed eyebrows. He wears a heavy robe with loose-fitting sleeves and a shell-shaped pendant around his neck. In his left hand, he holds a small sculpture of a muscular male figure. Behind him is a framed artwork showing three nude male figures and on the left background, there is another statue. The background consists of embellished linear textures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.2 x 22 cm (11 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1971.26.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2000

  • The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

2014

  • Heikamp, Detlev, and Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi. Baccio Bandinelli. Scultore e maestro (1493 - 1560). Florence, 2014: no. 75.

Wikidata ID

Q65511425

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