Massimiliano Soldani Benzi

Montevarchi (1656 - 1740)
Bacchus (after a sculpture by Jacopo Sansovino in the Bargello)

bronze, height 33,4 cm

Provenance

Massimiliano Soldani for the Salviati ducal family. From the Salviati, by inheritance, to the Colonna family.

Literature

Herbert Keutner, Massimiliano Soldani und die Familie Salviati. In: Kunst des Barock in der Toskana, ed. Herbert Keutner, Munich 1976, pp. 137-164 (on the Salviati family's patronage of Soldani)
Idem, Introduction to: Appendix. Modern Bronzes. In: Catalogo della Galleria Colonna in Roma. Sculture, ed. Filippo Carinci et al., Rome-Busto Arsizio 1990, pp. 279-280 (on the provenance of the Colonna bronzes from the Salviati family)
Dimitrios Zikos, Antikenkopien in Bronze des Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. In: Von allen Seiten schön. Rülckblicke auf Ausstellung und Kolloquium, ed. Volker Krahn, Cologne 1996, pp. 125-138 (with prior bibliography)

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