Grotesque Mask - Item #31
9 Inches High x 8 Inches Wide x 4 Inches Deep
As the legend goes, this piece is purportedly Michelangelo's first marble sculpture. According to his biographers Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was studying in the gardens of Lorenzo de Medici, "il Magnifico", at around the age of fifteen. He was intrigued by an ancient work of a faun's head, and decided to make a copy of it. He imagined the parts of the face that were missing from the ancient piece, such as the mouth. While he worked, Lorenzo noted that the old faun likely wouldn't have so many teeth, so Michelangelo changed the appearance of the open mouth. Lorenzo at that point became Michelangelo's patron. His sculpture has since been lost, as has a mask of the head that was once in the Bargello National Museum in Florence. A 19th century sculpture by Emilio Zocchi depicting Michelangelo sculpting the faun can also be found in our collection as Item #32.
Artist: Michelangelo
Museum/Location: Unknown
Time Period: Renaissance, c. 1489
1911 Catalog ID # - 13537
Sources:
Barolsky, Paul. “Michelangelo's Marble Faun Revisited.” Artibus Et Historiae, vol. 20, no. 40, 1999, pp. 113-116. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1483668.
Crispino, Enrica. "The Meeting with Lorenzo de' Medici in the Garden of San Marco." Michelangelo. English edition. Giunti Editore, 2001, pp. 14. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=xy8qxGlF4jcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Goffen, Rona. "Michelangelo." Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 75. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=-Q7c3dIGsAQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Rush, Laurie, and Luisa Benedettini Millington. The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property: Saving the World's Heritage, Woodbridge, UK, The Boydell Press, 2015, pp. 130. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=oJq7CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Tagliabue, John. "Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by Nazis." The New York Times, 28 May 1995, section 1, page 8. The New York Times Archives, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/28/world/armed-with-list-italy-pursues-artworks-looted-by-nazis.html.
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Grotesque Mask - Item #31
9 Inches High x 8 Inches Wide x 4 Inches Deep
As the legend goes, this piece is purportedly Michelangelo's first marble sculpture. According to his biographers Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was studying in the gardens of Lorenzo de Medici, "il Magnifico", at around the age of fifteen. He was intrigued by an ancient work of a faun's head, and decided to make a copy of it. He imagined the parts of the face that were missing from the ancient piece, such as the mouth. While he worked, Lorenzo noted that the old faun likely wouldn't have so many teeth, so Michelangelo changed the appearance of the open mouth. Lorenzo at that point became Michelangelo's patron. His sculpture has since been lost, as has a mask of the head that was once in the Bargello National Museum in Florence. A 19th century sculpture by Emilio Zocchi depicting Michelangelo sculpting the faun can also be found in our collection as Item #32.
Artist: Michelangelo
Museum/Location: Unknown
Time Period: Renaissance, c. 1489
1911 Catalog ID # - 13537
Sources:
Barolsky, Paul. “Michelangelo's Marble Faun Revisited.” Artibus Et Historiae, vol. 20, no. 40, 1999, pp. 113-116. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1483668.
Crispino, Enrica. "The Meeting with Lorenzo de' Medici in the Garden of San Marco." Michelangelo. English edition. Giunti Editore, 2001, pp. 14. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=xy8qxGlF4jcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Goffen, Rona. "Michelangelo." Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 75. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=-Q7c3dIGsAQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Rush, Laurie, and Luisa Benedettini Millington. The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property: Saving the World's Heritage, Woodbridge, UK, The Boydell Press, 2015, pp. 130. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=oJq7CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Tagliabue, John. "Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by Nazis." The New York Times, 28 May 1995, section 1, page 8. The New York Times Archives, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/28/world/armed-with-list-italy-pursues-artworks-looted-by-nazis.html.
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9 Inches High x 8 Inches Wide x 4 Inches Deep
As the legend goes, this piece is purportedly Michelangelo's first marble sculpture. According to his biographers Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was studying in the gardens of Lorenzo de Medici, "il Magnifico", at around the age of fifteen. He was intrigued by an ancient work of a faun's head, and decided to make a copy of it. He imagined the parts of the face that were missing from the ancient piece, such as the mouth. While he worked, Lorenzo noted that the old faun likely wouldn't have so many teeth, so Michelangelo changed the appearance of the open mouth. Lorenzo at that point became Michelangelo's patron. His sculpture has since been lost, as has a mask of the head that was once in the Bargello National Museum in Florence. A 19th century sculpture by Emilio Zocchi depicting Michelangelo sculpting the faun can also be found in our collection as Item #32.
Artist: Michelangelo
Museum/Location: Unknown
Time Period: Renaissance, c. 1489
1911 Catalog ID # - 13537
Sources:
Barolsky, Paul. “Michelangelo's Marble Faun Revisited.” Artibus Et Historiae, vol. 20, no. 40, 1999, pp. 113-116. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1483668.
Crispino, Enrica. "The Meeting with Lorenzo de' Medici in the Garden of San Marco." Michelangelo. English edition. Giunti Editore, 2001, pp. 14. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=xy8qxGlF4jcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Goffen, Rona. "Michelangelo." Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 75. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=-Q7c3dIGsAQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Rush, Laurie, and Luisa Benedettini Millington. The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property: Saving the World's Heritage, Woodbridge, UK, The Boydell Press, 2015, pp. 130. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=oJq7CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Tagliabue, John. "Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by Nazis." The New York Times, 28 May 1995, section 1, page 8. The New York Times Archives, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/28/world/armed-with-list-italy-pursues-artworks-looted-by-nazis.html.
