Sunday, 11 October 2020

Venetian Bust



always worth a re-visit.  
looks like bronze and marble but is all coloured marble.  Hollowed out from rear, probably made to grace a wall niche, perhaps to allude to handsome servants and gondoliers attending guests at  the noble [or rich] family's palazzo.
18th century bust from Venice, purchased in Florence in 1869 for V&A.  
 

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