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Christ´s dead body is taken off the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and Saint John the Evangelist. Among the people at his feet are the Virgin Mary, the mother of Joseph —also called Mary— as [+]
Past collectors commonly mistook Passerotti’s academic studies from the nude for the work of the Florentine Bandinelli (1493-1560). The handling of this drawing is after him in this technique in the M [+]
Although the style of drawing is characteristic of Bandinelli, the majestic pose indeed echoes figures by Michelangelo on the Sistine ceiling, which he painted in 1508-1512. While the noble head and c [+]
Bandinelli gave a “bellissima Venere”, in his own words, to Charles V prior to 1536, which is recorded in the collection of Charles’s sister, Mary of Hungary. It was executed in Rome from a cast of a [+]
In 1549 in Brussels Charles V commissioned Leone Leoni to execute a group of statues of himself and his deceased wife the Empress Elizabeth of Portugal.They were to be in different formats (bust and h [+]
