. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. PIERO TORRIGIANO14-72—1522 317—Sixteenth Century Florentine Colored Terra-cotta Figure Nude figure of St. Sebastian, his limbs tied with ropes to a tree trunk and the head fallen forward as if in the throes of dis- j^ solution. Around his waist he wears a knotted loin-cloth. His ?^ body shows the marks of wounds, and at one side is the body ^?^ armor of a Roman warrior and on the other the stand
. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. PIERO TORRIGIANO14-72—1522 317—Sixteenth Century Florentine Colored Terra-cotta Figure Nude figure of St. Sebastian, his limbs tied with ropes to a tree trunk and the head fallen forward as if in the throes of dis- j^ solution. Around his waist he wears a knotted loin-cloth. His ?^ body shows the marks of wounds, and at one side is the body ^?^ armor of a Roman warrior and on the other the standing figure ^ of a piitto. On the tree is hung a (juiver full of arrows. On irregular rocky base. Xaturalistically colored. Height. 26 inches. Torrigiano is, ]ierha]).s, best known as thu dcsifrncr and sculptor ofthe tomb of Henry \II in Westminster Abbey, liOndon. (Illusfrafed) AJVDREA VERROCCHIO 1432— 318—Fifteenth Century Fi>grentine Coiajred Stucco FigureInfant Hercules Strangling the Serpent. Undraped figureof an infant with voluminous closely curling hair, leaningagainst a rock, lying upon one side and seizing with his rightQ hand (now absent) the head of a serpent the
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