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This curious sculpture entered the collection, at great cost, as the work of the Florentine Renaissance sculptor Giovanni Francesco Rustici (1475–1554). Recent research has raised suspicions that it is neither by him nor even of his period, although the figure type has some similarities with certain bronzes by Antonio del Pollaiuolo (1429/1433–1498). It may be a nineteenth-century pastiche, perhaps concocted for the growing art market for renaissance sculpture. Made of cartapesta (papier-mâché) and wax, it has the appearance of a preparatory model.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Birmingham

Title

Hercules and a Dragon

Date

possibly late 19th C

Medium

wax & cartapesta (papier-mâché)

Measurements

H 28.4 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

50.8

Acquisition method

purchased at Sotheby's sale of Henry Harris's estate, 1950

Work type

Statue

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TS England

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