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Model for a figure on the tomb of Michelangelo in the Church of Santa Croce, Florence, planned by Vincenzo Borghini and designed by Giorgio Vasari in 1564. This terracotta figure, which still retains its original painted surface, is a model for the figure of Architecture, one of a pair (the other symbolising Sculpture) that flank the tomb. The figure was to go on the right-hand side but the composition was somewhat altered in the full-scale, marble version. It is the work of Giovani Bandini, for which he was paid in 1568. The identification of this sketch model (or bozzetto) as for the figure of Architecture from the right-hand side of the tomb was not known to Sir John Soane, and in the earliest Museum inventories (1837) it was described simply as a 'small model of a sitting female figure (with hands broken off).
A sketch model by Battista Lorenzi for the figure on the left-hand side of the tomb, originally a personification of Sculpture but then changed to represent Painting, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
London
Title
Architecture
Date
c.1564
Medium
terracotta
Measurements
H 40 x W 20 x D 20 cm (E)
Accession number
A58
Acquisition method
acquired by Sir John Soane, before 1837
Work type
Statue
