Equestrian Monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni, 19Th Century

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Equestrian monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni, 19th century

FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 19° secolo - 1800 Ars Antiqua srl Milano Style: Altri stili +39 02 29529057 393664680856 Height:28cm Material:Bronzo Price:1200€

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19th century Equestrian monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni Dark patina bronze with marble base, cm alt 28

The work in question is a reproduction of the famous equestrian monument executed by Andrea del Verrocchio for Campo San Zanipolo in Venice between 1480 and 1488. It represents the leader Bartolomeo Colleoni (1395 / 1400-1475), one of the most enterprising captains of fortune of the Republic of Venice of the fifteenth century. He plays the classic bold and daring leader, full of charm and pride. He was at the service of the Serenissima and of Filippo Maria Visconti. The equestrian statue theme has been particularly prevalent in Western sculpture since Greek art. From the Roman imperial age this subject took on a heroic but also propaganda function that will characterize it until the twentieth century. More or less famous leaders were portrayed in this capacity; famous are the examples of Marcus Aurelius, Napoleon and Garibaldi, numerous are the works of this kind that adorn the main Italian and foreign squares. The realization of an equestrian monument, by one of the greatest artists of the fifteenth century, for the leader Bartolomeo Colleoni, who died a few years earlier, was decreed by the Republic of Venice in 1479. The following year the execution was entrusted to the Florentine Andrea Verrocchio (Florence, 1437 - Venice, 1488), however he disappeared before the work was finished. Verrocchio had appointed Lorenzo di Credi as heir and executor, but the Venetian Signoria preferred Alessandro Leopardi, a local artist, to him. For the realization of the group Verrocchio was inspired by the equestrian statue of Gattamelata by Donatello made between 1446 and 1453 for the Piazza del Santo in Padua, the ancient statue of Marcus Aurelius, the horses of San Marco and the Regisole of Pavia, bearing in mind also paintings such as the fresco by Paolo Uccello in Santa Maria Novella representing Giovanni Acuto. Verrocchio's work is the first bronze equestrian statue to portray one of the horse's legs in a raised position, thus underlining the majestic gait of the animal in step. The fusion of this model of classic memory and faithful historical reconstruction, as typical of the nineteenth-century spirit, appears of remarkable quality. Very detailed, down to the smallest detail, is the chiseling of the bronze: the armor of the

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