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FERDINANDO GREGORI: A SERIES OF SIX MATCHING FLORENTINE 17TH / 18TH CENTURY COPPER ENGRAVINGS OF SCULPTURES AFTER DRAWINGS BY ANTONIO FEDI AND OTHERS    depicting classical and renaissance sculptures in Rome and Florence:  1) Laocoön in the Belvedere Courtyard, Vatican; 2) ‘ancient Greek’, Ajax group, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; 3) Hercules & the Hydra by Baccio Bandinelli, Palazzo Niccolini, Florence; 4)Hercules & Antaeus by Vincenzo de Rossi, Palazzo della Signoria, Florence; 5) Hercules & a Centaur by Giambologna, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; 6)Hercules & Iole with Cupid, by Domenico Pieratti, Casa Galli-Tassi, Florence, three engravings framed, three unframed,  60cm high x 43cm wide excluding frames, (6)   PROVENANCE: CHARLES AVERY COLLECTION  Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English, Flemish and Dutch. A graduate in Classics at Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge.   Having been Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum for twelve years (1966-79), and a Director of Christies for ten years, since 1990 he has been a highly respected, independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer.   His books include ‘Florentine Renaissance Sculpture’, 1970, ‘Giambologna the Complete Sculpture’, Phaidon, 1987, ‘Donatello: An Introduction’, John Murray, 1994; ‘Bernini, Genius of the Baroque’, Thames and Hudson, 1997 (paperback, 2006),  and ‘The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos’, 2008.

FERDINANDO GREGORI: A SERIES OF SIX MATCHING FLORENTINE 17TH / 18TH CENTURY COPPER ENGRAVINGS OF SCULPTURES AFTER DRAWINGS BY ANTONIO FEDI AND OTHERS   depicting classical and renaissance sculptures in Rome and Florence:  1) Laocoön in the Belvedere Courtyard, Vatican; 2) ‘ancient Greek’, Ajax group, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; 3) Hercules & the Hydra by Baccio Bandinelli, Palazzo Niccolini, Florence; 4)Hercules & Antaeus by Vincenzo de Rossi, Palazzo della Signoria, Florence; 5) Hercules & a Centaur by Giambologna, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; 6)Hercules & Iole with Cupid, by Domenico Pieratti, Casa Galli-Tassi, Florence, three engravings framed, three unframed, 60cm high x 43cm wide excluding frames, (6) PROVENANCE: CHARLES AVERY COLLECTION Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English, Flemish and Dutch. A graduate in Classics at Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge. Having been Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum for twelve years (1966-79), and a Director of Christies for ten years, since 1990 he has been a highly respected, independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer. His books include ‘Florentine Renaissance Sculpture’, 1970, ‘Giambologna the Complete Sculpture’, Phaidon, 1987, ‘Donatello: An Introduction’, John Murray, 1994; ‘Bernini, Genius of the Baroque’, Thames and Hudson, 1997 (paperback, 2006),  and ‘The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos’, 2008.

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