Alessandro Rivani

1746 - c. 1832

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This free-standing, painted, terracotta portrait sculpture shows the head, shoulders, and chest of a man with dark hair and a prominent nose. His face and body are angled slightly to our right in this photograph, and he looks down his crooked nose. He has peach-colored skin, which is lightly shadowed around his chin. His thin lips are set in a line, and his brow is furrowed low above his eyes. Chin-length brown hair hangs straight down the sides of his face. His garment has scarlet-red sleeves under a navy-blue tunic, and he wears a red headdress that hangs down to his shoulder over his left ear, on our right. A red scarf drapes across his chest, and the end hangs on his chest on our left. Paint losses on the surface of the sculpture allow the brown terracotta to show through in some areas.
Florentine 16th Century, Lorenzo de' Medici, possibly 1513/1520, painted terracotta, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.92

Lorenzo de' Medici

Florentine 16th Century · possibly 1513/1520 · painted terracotta ·  Accession ID  1943.4.92

Bibliography

1935

  • Dorini, Umberto, ed. "Chronistoria dal 1735 al 1935...per il secondo centario dalla fondazione." La Società Colombaria (n.d.): 44-45, 254-257.