Portrait of a Man

Sculpture

Subject: Portrait of a Man

Author: Bianco Simone (sculptor, 1512- after 1553)

Date: first half of the 16th century A.D.

Description

Portrait of an aged man inspired by classic roman portraits. Scholars (since Favaretto) assigned it to Simone Bianco, artist who worked in Venice in the first half of the 16 century A.D. and author of many intensive portraits after the Antique. This one, being partly unfinished, is taught to be a model for a similar portrait in bronze currently held in Wien at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Materials and techniques: marble

Dimensions: height 16 cm, lenght 19 cm

Provenance: Mantova Benavides Collection, Padua; Vallisneri Collection, Padua

University of Padua, Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art

Cat. Number: MB90

Bibliography

  • Favaretto Irene, Antico o moderno? Un ritratto inedito della collezione rinascimentale di Marco Mantova Benavides, in Ritratto ufficiale e ritratto privato, Atti della II conferenza internazionale sul ritratto romano, Roma 23-30 settembre 1984, a cura di Nicola Bonacasa, Giovanni Rizza, Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 1988, pp. 289-294.
  • De Paoli Marcella, 45.Busto virile, in Un museo di antichità nella Padova del Cinquecento. La raccolta di Marco Mantova Benavides all’Università di Padova, a cura di Irene Favaretto, Alessandra Menegazzi, Roma, G.Bretschneider, 2013, p. 68.