19th Century Italian Bronze Bust of a Boy after Desiderio da Settignano

Rare bronze sculpture of a joyous boy from the early 1900s. The sculptor of this Fine work of art has managed to capture the pure innocence and joy of a young child. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna on Laughing Boy — The representation of children belongs among the most charming motifs revived by Renaissance art under the influence of Hellenism. Like a number of similar statuettes of equally unaffected charm, this one is probably the portrait of a child conceived as the infant Jesus. Such statuettes were commissioned to be set up in private chapels. The Laughing Boy is considered to be the last work of Desiderio da Settignano...

A very fine copy of the Renaissance sculpture entitled 'A Little Boy'. After Italian Renaissance sculptor Desiderio da Settignano, or Deside...

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19th Century bronze bust of Homer attributed to the attributed to the Chiurazzi Foundry, Naples, Italy. Homer was author of the epic poems the Iliad and the ...

An 19th century Italian grand tour Carrara marble bust of a young boy, In classical taste, his head slightly turned, on a square sienna and Carrara marble socle base.