Bull

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 10811

Material and technique

Bronze, lacquer

Author

Flemish Artist

Dating

c. 1600-1650

Dimensions

4.6 x 8.3 x 5 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This small bronze depicts a fighting bull: its head is lowered, its back is bent and its front left leg is raised behind. There are many versions of this bronze in various collections; they are all thought to have been fused in the first half of the 17th century, and are attributed to Flemish or Florentine sculptors from Giambologna’s studio.

Pietro Cannata 

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 42; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 28; C. Avery, Giambologna: an exhibition of sculpture by the master and his followers; from the collection of Michael Hall, exh. cat., New York 1998, no. 142, p. 223; D. Banzato, Bronzi del Rinascimento: Collezione Vok, Padua 2004, no. 38, p. 108.