Mankind has acquired the first and probably the only surviving to the present day a bronze sculpture by Michelangelo. She was found in a private collection, and its authenticity was confirmed by scientists from Cambridge.
This happens once in 500 years. An international team of experts led by experts from the University of Cambridge and the Fitzwilliam Museum (also in Cambridge) confidently identified in the composition of the two bronze riders Panther work great Michelangelo. These sculptures depict triumphant meters tall pair of naked men, old and young, and saddled two angry predators. If the evidence cited by art historians, will be true (and space for doubt, do not seem to remain), it will be the only bronze work of one of the most important Renaissance geniuses that have survived to the present day.
It is known that Michelangelo preferred marble sculpture, but sometimes changed this rule and as a material took bronze.
For example, documented that it was made smaller bronze replica of David on a scale of 2/3 and a monumental bronze statue of Pope Julius II in two human growth, but none of these masterpieces has not reached us – David disappeared during the French Revolution, and my father was melted on gun insurgents from Bologna.
But, as it turns out, there is a third bronze work by Michelangelo – a couple of Panther .
Her first documented owner, Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, bought it, as suggested in one of the Neapolitan Bourbons, and then the authorship attributed to Michelangelo. In 1900, he died, and sculptures were inherited by his son Maurice, but without any accompanying documents and anonymous, and when he died in 1957, a couple of Panther was in a private collection, where it was in oblivion until 2002 when the owner put it up for auction Sotheby’s and sold to another anonymous buyer, now the Briton.
Two for the Panthers have been executed so well that they soon felt the hand of the great sculptor.
But every time it turned out to be a sculptor who is anything but Michelangelo – among them Tiziano Aspetti, Jacopo Sansovino, and said they were called the auction a work of Benvenuto Cellini.
After 10 years, the composition of the newly appeared on one of the exhibitions of Renaissance bronzes, and here’s the first time in almost 120 years Experts suspect there cutter Michelangelo.
Last fall, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Cambridge Paul Dzhoannides studying drawing made 500 years ago by one of the disciples of Michelangelo, now stored in one of the French museums, which that very accurately copied Pieta (Madonna and Child), suddenly found in a corner of the picture image muscular young man in the panther, very reminiscent of the younger rider a little more than a decade ago, lit up a pair of bronze.
proving a detailed drawing similarities and bronze sculptures, Dzhoannides addressed to colleagues from Britain, Europe and the United States to verify his guess.
The experts approached the matter with the utmost seriousness and utmost care, no one wanted to stand like an idiot, no one was going to rush into a premature statement. A thorough comparison of the anatomical details and style inherent only to Michelangelo, the anatomy of the styling and riders on panther. Found a lot of anatomical match with other works of the great sculptor, up to similarity of the tendons on the femur with the same tendons David. Says a lot about identity styles. Scientists have managed to even establish the approximate date of the creation of a pair of bronze – between 1506 and 1508 years, a time when finishing sculptor David, and proceeded to the design of the Sistine Chapel.
It was the time of greatest activity of the great Michelangelo.
These findings occur infrequently, once every 500 years, but it seems that in the future they will become more frequent. Scientists there are new tools and new methods of research, including interdisciplinary, as happened in this case. As reported by the “Times”, with the help of X-ray fluorescence analysis of the was found unknown Van Gogh painting , and the analysis of meteorological observations allowed to date one of the works of Monet . And perhaps we will not have to wait another five centuries before the new, equally significant Greetings from antiquity, something, say, like the first edition in vivo “Iliad” by Homer in the form of bundles of half-decayed parchments and circulation in one instance.
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