Overview
Provenance
Alessandro Rivani [1746-c. 1832], Florence.[1] Carlo Ernesto Liverati [1805-1844], Florence, until c. 1835;[2] Rev. John Sanford [1777-1855], Florence and London;[3] sold c. 1841 to Edward Nicholls Dennys, London, until at least 1850.[4] Henry Labouchere, 1st baron Taunton [1798-1869], Stoke Park, Over-Stowey, Somersetshire, by 1862; by inheritance to his son-in-law, Edward James Stanley [1826-1907], Quantock Lodge, Bridgewater, Somersetshire; by inheritance to his son, Edward Arthur Vesey Stanley [1879-1941], Quantock Lodge;[5] (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1920, no. 17);[6] probably purchased by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[7] sold to Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1923;[8] his estate; sold 1940 through (Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York) to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[9] purchased 1941 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.
Associated Names
Dennys, Edward NichollsDuveen Brothers, Inc.
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Labouchere, 1st baron Taunton, Henry
Liverati, Carlo Ernesto
Mackay, Clarence H.
Rivani, Alessandro
Sanford, John, Rev.
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques
Stanley, Edward Arthur Vesey
Stanley, Edward James
Exhibition History
- 1850
- Works of Ancient and Mediaeval Art, The House of the Society of Arts, London, 1850, no. 617, as Attributed to Michelangelo.
- 1862
- Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods, South Kensington Museum, London, 1862-1864, no. 1, as Florentine 15th Century.
- 1946
- Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-146.
- 2004
- Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence, National Museum of the Bargello, Florence; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004, not in catalogue (shown only in Washington).
- 2013
- Florenz!, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 2013-2014, no. 109, repro.
- 2013
- Nello splendore mediceo: Papa Leone X e Firenze, Museo delle Cappelle Mediceee, Florence, 2013, no. 8, repro.
- 2019
- Verrocchio. Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence. National Gallery of Art, 2019-2020, no. 22, repro.
Bibliography
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- 1923
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- 1925
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- 1926
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- 1930
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- 1932
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- 1935
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- 1935
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- 1935
- Volpi, Elia. Lorenzo de' Medici: Busto in terracotta opera di Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488). Città di Castello, 1935: not paginated, repro.
- 1937
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- 1944
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- 1944
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- 1944
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- 1945
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- 1949
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- 1955
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- 1959
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- 1961
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- 1965
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- 1966
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- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 152, repro.
- 1969
- Passavant, Günter. Verrocchio. Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings. Complete Edition. Translated from the German MS by Katherine Watson. London, 1969: no. 4.
- 1971
- Seymour, Charles. The Sculpture of Verrocchio. Greenwich, CT, 1971: 127-128, no. 34, fig. 176.
- 1972
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- 1974
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- 1976
- Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 79.
- 1976
- Schuyler, Jane. Florentine Busts: Sculpted Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century. New York, 1976: 302, fig. 80.
- 1981
- Langedijk, Karla. The Portraits of the Medici: 15th-18th Centuries. 3 vols. Florence, 1981-1987: 1(1981):27-30; 2(1983):1140, 1158-1162, no. 28, repro.
- 1982
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- 1984
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- 1988
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- 1992
- Bartlett, Kenneth R. The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook. Lexington, MA and Toronto, 1992: 257, repro.
- 1992
- Darr, Alan Phipps. “Verrocchio’s Legacy: Observations Regarding His Influence on Pietro Torrigiani and Other Florentine Sculptors.” In Verrocchio and Late Quattrocento Italian Sculpture. Steven Bule, Alan Phipps Darr, and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. eds. (Acts of two conferences commemorating the fifth centenary of Verrocchio’s death. I. April 1988 at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; II. June 1989 at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno and the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence). Florence, 1992:125-139, esp. 137.
- 1992
- Fiero, Gloria K. On the Threshold of Modernity: The Renaissance and the Reformation. The Humanistic Tradition 3. 1st ed. [7th ed. 2015] Dubuque, Iowa, 1992: 25, fig. 16.1.
- 1992
- National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 291, repro.
- 1992
- Rolfi, Gianfranco, Ludovica Sebregondi, and Paolo Viti, eds. La chiesa e la città a Firenze nel XV secolo. Milan, 1992: 32, repro.
- 1992
- Stapleford, Richard. The Age of Lorenzo de' Medici: Patronage and the Arts in Renaissance Florence. A Walking Tour of Italian Painting and Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1992: 5.
- 1993
- Ferrazza, Roberta. Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi. Florence, 1993: 133 fig. 135, 134, 143 n. 194.
- 1993
- The American Heritage College Dictionary, 3rd ed., s.v. "Medici," repro. Boston, 1993.
- 1993
- Toscani, Bernard, ed. Lorenzo de' Medici: New Perspectives. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 30- May 2, 1992. New York, 1993: not paginated, repro.
- 1993
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- 1994
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- 1995
- Feldman, Edmund Burke. The Artist: A Social History. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, 1995: 89, repro.
- 1995
- Walker, Paul Robert. The Italian Renaissance. New York, 1995: 30-32, repro.
- 1996
- Butters, Suzanne B. The Triumph of Vulcan: Sculptors' Tools, Porphyry, and the Prince in Ducal Florence. Villa I Tatti / The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 14. 2 vols. Florence, 1996: I:310, II:385.
- 1996
- Grieder, Terence. Artist and Audience. New York, 1996: 388, fig. 12.1.
- 1996
- Kobrin, David. Beyond the Textbook: Teaching History Using Documents and Primary Sources. Boston, 1996: 41, fig. 3-3.
- 1998
- Warren, Jeremy. "A portrait bust of Lorenzo de' Medici in Oxford." The Sculpture Journal 2 (1998): 1-12.
- 1999
- Mazzotta Prum, Deborah. Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation. Charlottesville, VA, 1999: 16, repro.
- 2000
- Luchs, Alison. "Lorenzo from Life?: Renaissance Portrait Busts of Lorenzo de' Medici." The Sculpture Journal 4 (2000): 6-23, figs. 2, 6, 21, and 22.
- 2000
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- 2003
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- 2005
- Covi, Dario. Andrea del Verrocchio, Life and Work. Florence, 2005: 133-134, fig. 119.
- 2005
- DeAngelis, Adrienne. "On the Ashmolean bust of Lorenzo de' Medici." The Sculpture Journal 13 (2005): 5-17.
- 2005
- Warren, Jeremy. "Forgery in Risorgimento Florence: Bastianini's 'Giovanni delle Bande Nere' in the Wallace Collection." The Burlington Magazine 147 (November 2005): 737, fig. 19.
- 2006
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- 2006
- Dietsch, Deborah K. "Lorenzo's new clothes: Colors awakened from centuries of grit, grime." The Washington Times (Saturday, August 12, 2006): B1, B3, repro.
- 2006
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- 2006
- Vogel, Carol. "Lorenzo the Magnificent, Restored to Power." The New York Times (Friday, July 28, 2006).
- 2008
- Utari, Ginevra. "Maestro Verrocchiesco, Busto di Lorenzo il Magnifico / Verrocchiesque Master, Bust of Lorenzo the Magnificent." In Tosti, Barbara, ed. Mugello culla del Rinascimento: Giotto, Beato Angelico, Donatello e i Medici. Exh. cat. Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, 2008: 236.
- 2013
- Belman, Michael, Alison Luchs, and Shelley Sturman. “A Renaissance of Color: The Conservation of Lorenzo the Magnificent.” Facture: conservation, science, art history 1 (2013): 32-57, figs. 1, 2, 5, 13-22.
- 2013
- Kohl, Jeanette. “Casting Renaissance Florence: the bust of Giovanni de’ Medici and indexical portraiture.” In Carvings, Casts & Collectors: The Art of Renaissance Sculpture. Peta Motture, Emma Jones and Dimitrios Zikos, eds. London, 2013: 58-71, esp. 62-63, 70, repro. 63.
- 2013
- McHam, Sarah Blake. Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance:The Legacy of the Natural History. New Haven and London, 2013: 118-119, repro.
- 2017
- Rudolph, Conrad, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Ramya Srinivasan, and Jeanette Kohl. "FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems -- A Feasibility Study of the Application of Face Recognition Technology to Works of Portrait Art." Artibus et historiae 39, no. 75 (2017): 265-291, esp. 272-273, repro. 273, 288-289.
- 2022
- Gaffo, Fabio. "Lorenzo de'Medici's Bust in Berlin: (Dis)Order and (Mis)fortune of a Casting Tradition." Predella 24 (2021; published 2022), 73-92 and plates; repro. pl. LXXVII, fig. 3.
- 2023
- Mancuso, Piergabriele, Alice S. Legé and Sefy Hendle. The Jews, The Medici, and the Ghetto of Florence. Exh. cat. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, 2023: 176,
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