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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Two Wrestlers
Alternate Title:
Due lottatori
Image View:
Overall view in museum case
Creator:
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian , 1475-1564)
Location:
repository: Casa Buonarroti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) inv. 19
Location Note:
Via Ghibellina 70
GPS:
43.769903 11.263758
Date:
ca. 1530 (creation); restored 1926 (restoration)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 2:
maquette (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
unglazed terracotta
Technique:
modeling (forming)
Measurements:
41 cm (height)
Subjects:
human figure; Restoration and conservation; bozzetti; sketches; athletes
Description:
In the collection of bozzetti (maquettes) of Casa Buonarroti is this clay sketch, whose attribution to Michelangelo is accepted by most scholars. The maquette is presented in its current form as a result of the recomposition of fragments carried out in 1926, overseen by Johannes Wilde and by the then Superintendent of Galleries Giovanni Poggi. (Source: Casa Buonarroti [museum website]; http://www.casabuona rroti.it/it/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-MB-CB-DL-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Two Wrestlers