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The terracotta bust at the centre of this exhibition was executed by Alessandro Vittoria ( 1525-1608 ), remembered as the greatest 16th century portraitist working in three dimensions in Italy.
The sculpture is a likeness of his friend and patron Giulio Contarini, procurator of Saint Mark’s Basilica from 1537 until his death in 1580. Acquired by the gallery in 2002, bust was executed in the early 1570’s when Contarini commissioned Vitoria to build a memorial in the Venetian church of Santa Maria del Giglio where the marble version of the bust still stands.
The small bronze of Saint Sebastian is a copy of the original marble saint by Alessandro Vittoria in San Francesco della Vigna in Venice.
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The terracotta bust at the centre of this exhibition was executed by Alessandro Vittoria ( 1525-1608 ), remembered as the greatest 16th century portraitist working in three dimensions in Italy.
The sculpture is a likeness of his friend and patron Giulio Contarini, procurator of Saint Mark’s Basilica from 1537 until his death in 1580. Acquired by the gallery in 2002, bust was executed in the early 1570’s when Contarini commissioned Vitoria to build a memorial in the Venetian church of Santa Maria del Giglio where the marble version of the bust still stands.
The small bronze of Saint Sebastian is a copy of the original marble saint by Alessandro Vittoria in San Francesco della Vigna in Venice.