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Giacomo Zoffoli Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1731 - d. 1785

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b. 1731 - d. 1785

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GIACOMO ZOFFOLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1785) AFTER THE ANTIQUE: AN 18TH CENTURY BRONZE FIGURE OF THE APOLLINO the nude figure with right arm raised and left arm leaning against a tree trunk hung with a quiver of arrows, on a shaped base, signed 'G. ZOFFOLI', 35cm high 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. Giacomo Zoffoli's workshop was the leading Roman foundry during the 18th century, and was famous for producing reductions in bronze after antique marbles of the very highest quality. We do not know exactly when the marble Apollino was discovered, but records show it was in the collection at Villa Medici by 1704 and prior to that had been in the Borghese collection. It remained in Rome until it was removed to accompany the Medici Niobe Group in 1769-70, and is now in the Uffizi, Florence. A further reduction of this model by Zoffoli is in the Hermitage museum, acquired in 1933 from the Antikvariat All-Union Association, Inv. no. ?.??-1908, 33cm high. Related Literature: Haskell & Penny 'Taste and the Antique' p.146-148.

GIACOMO ZOFFOLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1785) AFTER THE ANTIQUE: AN 18TH CENTURY BRONZE FIGURE OF THE APOLLINO the nude figure with right arm raised and left arm leaning against a tree trunk hung with a quiver of arrows, on a shaped base, signed 'G. ZOFFOLI', 35cm high 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. Giacomo Zoffoli's workshop was the leading Roman foundry during the 18th century, and was famous for producing reductions in bronze after antique marbles of the very highest quality. We do not know exactly when the marble Apollino was discovered, but records show it was in the collection at Villa Medici by 1704 and prior to that had been in the Borghese collection. It remained in Rome until it was removed to accompany the Medici Niobe Group in 1769-70, and is now in the Uffizi, Florence. A further reduction of this model by Zoffoli is in the Hermitage museum, acquired in 1933 from the Antikvariat All-Union Association, Inv. no. ?.??-1908, 33cm high. Related Literature: Haskell & Penny 'Taste and the Antique' p.146-148.

Sold: GBP 4,800

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