FERRUCCI, Andrea di Piero
(b. 1465, Fiesole, d. ca. 1526, Firenze)

Julius Caesar

1512-14
Marble, height 69 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ferrucci's pleasing Julius Caesar exemplifies the delicately ornate, a l'antica style of Florentine sculpture fashionable in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. While the face is strikingly naturalistic and portrait-like, the profuse amount of surface detail seems to disperse rather than unify form and to reduce the scale of the sculpture rather than create a sense of monumentality.




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