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Venetian 17th Century
1595–1605
Venetian 17th Century was a Baroque artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art.
This bronze caster shaped playful myth and quiet faith in 17th-century Venice. Their small sculptures, Andiron with Figure of Venus and its fiery twin Andiron with Figure of Mars, show Venus lounging on a hearth tool and Mars gripping a spear, both cast in warm bronze around 1600. Two delicate ink drawings in the bundle, The Christ Child Appearing to Saint Francis and The Pietà, use fine brown pen lines and gentle washes to tell quiet stories on paper. Look next at the bronze Venus to see how myth slipped into everyday objects.
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