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Cercle of Romano Alberti, Page, Around 1530-1540
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Cercle of Romano Alberti, dit Il Nero da Sansepolcro ( San Sepolcro, 1521-1568 )
Page
Mixed media : wood core, papier mâché, stucco, polychrome and gilded
Italy, around 1530-1540
88 cm
This page is one of a number of sculptures that are similarly constructed in stucco and wood using the mixed media technique and today attributed To Romano Alberti and his circle. We can appreciate it by focusing on his tunic and his sandals, recalling the earliest sixteenth century Umbrian sculptors, those from San Sepolcro especially. Romano Alberti, better know as Nero today or as Magione Master in the recent past, was surely the most important of them.
Their inner poplar wood structure was usually human being shaped. Some paper-mâché was attached to the sculpture and suddenly covered with some gypsum. Then, as they got dried, he painted the layers carefully.
Bibliographie :
- C. Galassi, Sculture da vestire : Nero Alberti da San Sepolcro e la produzione di manichini lignei in una bottega del Cinquecento. Firenze Electa ; Editori Umbri Associati, 2005
- C. Galassi, « Arte e serialità nella bottega di Nero Alberti a Sansepolcro », In Nero Alberti, 2005
- E. Neri. Lusanna, « Tra arte e devozione : la tradizione dei manichini lignei nella scultura umbro-marchigiana della prima metà del Cinquecento » in G. B. Fidanza, scultura e arredo in legno fra Marche e Umbria, Atti del Primo convegno, Pergola 24-25 ottobre 1997, Perugia 1999.
- Dimensions:Height: 34.65 in (88 cm)Width: 13.78 in (35 cm)Depth: 7.49 in (19 cm)
- Style:Renaissance (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:16th Century
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Bruxelles, BE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6666229644172
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