Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . C5 Warn in sim t* ifi<£. LAMP. BRONZE. No. 137.—1865. THIS lamp, which was obtained at the sale of Lord Cadogans collectionin 1865, is in unusually good preservation. The decorations arenumerous and varied ; designed with great spirit and executed by a goodFlorentine artist, in the early part (the best period) of the sixteenth Rustici, a pupil of Verrocchio, Jacopo Sansovino, and others ofthe same school, produced many admirable works in bronze at that time;but we ca
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . C5 Warn in sim t* ifi<£. LAMP. BRONZE. No. 137.—1865. THIS lamp, which was obtained at the sale of Lord Cadogans collectionin 1865, is in unusually good preservation. The decorations arenumerous and varied ; designed with great spirit and executed by a goodFlorentine artist, in the early part (the best period) of the sixteenth Rustici, a pupil of Verrocchio, Jacopo Sansovino, and others ofthe same school, produced many admirable works in bronze at that time;but we cannot name the master to whom this lamp can be with certaintyattributed. The taste of the later part of the fourteenth and the beginning of thefifteenth centuries was greatly influenced by the admiration then spreadingfor the antique. The general idea of this lamp is borrowed from the shapeof an ancient galley. The body is covered with reliefs : tritons and otherfabulous marine animals, with a larger central subject in a terminal figures, with foliated scrolls, fill the sweeps at the , floral a
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