DANTI, Vincenzo
(b. 1530, Perugia, d. 1576, Perugia)

Moses and the Brazen Serpent

1559
Bronze, height 82 x 172 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

This relief by Danti suggests the hasty, sketchy style Michelangelo's composition drawings translated into bronze. The relief offer a wide variety of projections and a free handling of detail that produce, as light moves over the bronze, an equivalent of chiaroscuro effects and floating contours of rapid drawing in charcoal or chalk.