ROCCATAGLIATA, Nicolò
(b. before 1593, Genova, d. 1636, Venezia)

Putto with Drum

1625-30
Bronze, height 28 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Numerous small bronzes of vastly varying quality have been attributed to Roccatagliata; if only a fraction of the music-making angels attributed to him actually came from his shop, it must have been a flourishing enterprise. Certainly by him are a seated Virgin and Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), as well as Adam and Eve and two music-making putti (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).




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