Bust of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

Foto di Adriano Fiorentino "Portrait of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano"

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Titolo dell'opera:

Bust of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

Acquisizione:

Ospedale di Pammatone 1881 Genova - acquisto

Autore:

Maestri, Adriano di Giovanni de'

Object Type:

sculpture

Epoca:

1490 - 1494 - XV

Inventario:

MSA 3683

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 49.5; Larghezza: 50.2; Profondità: 19.2

Tecnica:

bronzo fuso a cera persa, inciso, levigato e lucidato

Ultimi prestiti:

Rinascimento visto da Sud. Matera, l'Italia meridionale e il Mediterraneo tra '400 e '500 - Matera, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Medievale e Moderna - 19/04/2019—15/09/2019<br>The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 21/12/2011—18/03/2012<br>Gesichter der Renaissance. Meisterwerke italienischer Portrait-Kunst - Berlino, Gemäldegalerie e Bode-Museum - 25/08/2011—20/11/2011

Descrizione:
A humanist and politician, Pontano was perhaps the greatest Italian poet in Latin. This bronze bust was commissioned by Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Calabria and later King of Naples under the name Alfonso III, to celebrate this personage who had been his tutor. Adriano Fiorentino was a bronze foundryman and medallist and carried out an intense activity between Italy and Germany, producing among others two important busts of public figures: Ferdinand I, in Naples, and Frederick the Wise, in Dresden. Bronze bust of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, poet and tutor.