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.