SCULTURA Lot n° 40

Giovanni Minelli de' Bardi (1440-1529) attributed. Saint James sculpture modeled in terracotta with slight traces of polychrome preparation h cm 132 The standing saint dressed in the old-fashioned manner is characterized by a face modeled with deep psychological investigation and marked naturalism especially the eyes with heavy eyelids the disheveled locks of the thick curly hair and the robe that under the cloak with broken-line folds falls to the ground in a vertical movement. Comparative bibliography: G. Gentilini Un busto all'antica del Riccio and some notes on the terracotta scuitura in Padua between Quattrocento and Cinquecento in 'New Studies' I 1996 pp. 29-46 G. Gentilini Giovanni Minelli de' Bardi in G. Romano (ed.) Dal Trecento al Seicento. Le arti a paragone exhibition cat. Turin Oct.-Nov. 1991 pp. 61-77 (for the statue of St. John the Baptist already at the Galleria Antichi Maestri Pittori in Turin) Antiquarian Exhibition cat. of Milan Permanente Milan 2000 p. 62 (for the full-length high relief with Christ at the column presented by the Daninos Gallery in Florence) From the Middle Ages to Canova. Sculptures from the Civic Museums of Padua from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century exhibition cat. exhibition Padua Apr.-Jul. 2000 pp. 118-122 (for the three life-size statues from the Museo Civico degli Eremitani in Padua depicting Christ St. Pletro and St. John the Evangelist).