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Circle of Bartolommeno Bandinelli (Italian, 1493-1560): A 16th century Italian carved stone figure of 'Apollo killing a lizard' after the antique image 1
Circle of Bartolommeno Bandinelli (Italian, 1493-1560): A 16th century Italian carved stone figure of 'Apollo killing a lizard' after the antique image 2
Lot 61TP

Circle of Bartolommeno Bandinelli (Italian, 1493-1560): A 16th century Italian carved stone figure of 'Apollo killing a lizard'
after the antique

Fine Decorative Arts, 1200-1900
18 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£18,000 - £24,000

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Circle of Bartolommeno Bandinelli (Italian, 1493-1560): A 16th century Italian carved stone figure of 'Apollo killing a lizard'

after the antique
the naked youth in contraposto, clad in a fig leaf, his upturned face with tightly curled hair, standing beside a rustic tree stump, on naturalistic base, 155cm high overall

Footnotes

Working as a sculptor, painter and draughtman in his native Florence, Bandinelli's early life was greatly influenced by his father who worked as a goldsmith and counted the Medici as one of his patrons. Later studying under the sculptor Giovanni Francesco Rustici, Bandinelli's first major sculptural commission was for a statue of St. Peter in marble for the crossing of the Duomo (1515-1517).

With Pope Leo X's return to Florence, this enabled Bandinelli to gain a series of commissions, mainly of Classical gods and heroes which are documented in his sketches and drawings and when Giulio de' Medici was subsequently elected Pope Clement VII, the sculptor gained further commissions including the decorations for the papal coronation in 1523.

With the Sack of Rome in 1527 and the Seige of Florence, along with the expulsion of the Medici, Bandinelli was forced to leave Florence but after producing a number of sculptures which made his name throughout Italy, he returned to Florence and carved the group of Hercules and Cacus, in the Piazza della Signoria, which then established him as the official sculptor to the Medici Dukes.

The tightly curled hair and pose of the current lot can be compared to Bandinelli's Apollo in the Boboli Gardens in Florence dating from 1448-58.

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