Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Moses and the Brazen Serpent

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Image View: 
Detail, group of writhing bodies at left
Creator: 
Vincenzo Danti (Italian sculptor, 1530-1576)
Location: 
repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Via del Proconsolo 4
GPS: 
+43.770372+11.25835
Date: 
1559 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1: 
relief (sculpture)
Work Type 2: 
bas-relief (sculpture)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
bronze
Technique: 
casting (process)
Measurements: 
82 cm (height) x 172 cm (width)
Subjects: 
Old Testament and Apocrypha; Moses (Biblical leader)
Description: 
While establishing his reputation as a sculptor in marble, Danti continued to work in bronze. The large relief of Moses and the Brazen Serpent, cast in two parts, was completed in late 1559 and may have been associated with the decorations of the Palazzo Vecchio, or with a failed project to make bronze reliefs a part of Bandinelli’s choir in Florence Cathedral. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-DANTI-MBS-A03
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.