#modello

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[portrait-paintings]

John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

Artist: Andrea Soldi (Italian, 1703–1771)

Date: 1753

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

The Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack achieved great success after moving from Antwerp to London in 1720. He became the leading sculptor of busts and monumental tombs until he experienced competition from Louis François Roubiliac in the 1740s. Rysbrack was also renowned as a skillful modeler, and his terracotta models were highly sought after by eighteenth-century connoisseurs. In this portrait by the Florentine artist Andrea Soldi, Rysbrack is shown at work on the terracotta modello for his marble statue of Hercules. The marble, which Horace Walpole considered his “chef d’oeuvre,” was commissioned by Henry Hoare of Stourhead in Wiltshire and was completed in 1756. A terracotta bust by Rysbrack that relates to the statue of Hercules is shown alongside.

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Prudence

Artist: Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)

Date: Early 1680's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of 12 that Giordano made in preparation for the ceiling frescoes in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence in 1682–5. Ten of the modelli are in the National Gallery'​s collection, and this one represents ​one of the four Cardinal Virtues. First identified by the philosopher Plato, these were later adopted by the Roman Catholic Church. A different Virtue is depicted in each corner of the ceiling.

Here, Prudence carries an arrow with a serpent entwined around it. On the left are two mathematicians, probably Archimedes and Euclid, representing Order and Reason. Cowering at the feet of Prudence is Fraud (the two-faced figure with claws), while Ignorance holds up a donkey’s head. In the sky are figures representing, from left to right: Abundance (or Felicity), with a cornucopia and olive branch; Grace, who holds a key; and Wellbeing, with a shield and a cup.

[immaginando-fantasie]

Suor @immaginando-fantasie volevo sapere se sono ancora in tempo per iscrivermi al suo corso d’arte sacra…

Certo, il tuo desiderio di arte sacra non può essere assolutamente mortificato.

La foto che hai messo ha fatto nascere in me la curiosità di sapere se fare il "modello" per un classe di sorelle possa appartenere all'universo maschile (nella fantasia non è concesso al "modello" di toccare le sorelle, al più può "toccare" se stesso).

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