Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c. 1475 - 1525

PRESCRIBED WORKS OF ART 2023/24

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Possibly circle of Francia
Sculpture of a female figure, perhaps Venus
c. 1495 – 1505
Brass copper alloy
26.1 x 7.9 cm (height x width) with socle 34.2 cm (height) 2.51 kg (weight)
WA1899.CDEF.B411
https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/351229

Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014)  

Thornton, Dora, “The status and display of small bronzes in the Italian Renaissance interior,” Sculpture Journal (2001)

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