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Neoclassical bust in Carrara marble representing the Greek poet Sappho, Cincinnato Baruzzi and workshop.
Cincinnato Baruzzi, Italian sculptor, Canova's right-hand man, born in Imola in 1796 and died in Bologna in 1878.
A favorite student of Antonio Canova, upon whose death he was appointed to direct his workshop for a decade, he personally experienced the transition from neoclassical to purist culture, becoming a reference for many Bolognese sculptors of the following generation. Its production was intended for Italian customers and even more for the international market, ranging from Russia to France, from England to South America.
The bust of Sappho was made around 1837, strongly inspired by the grey marble model exhibited at Palazzo Massimo in Rome. Baruzzi made it as a gift for one of his main Italian clients, Count Paolo Tosio, a famous art collector whose house in Brescia is now a museum: the poetess, with regular features and a full mouth, has her hair gathered back in an elaborate hairstyle, almost like a cap, while two curls hang down at the sides of her face. Baruzzi seems to have been inspired by the numerous “ideal heads” executed by Canova himself in the late phase of his activity, in particular those of “Greek” subjects, where the modelling and the features take on “severe” characteristics and an accentuated, almost puristic, formal simplicity. It is not to be excluded that Baruzzi, then working in Canova’s studio and his favourite pupil, sometimes collaborated in the execution of these busts. The bust of Sappho was presented at the Brera Exhibition of 1837.
From the comparison with Dr. Mampieri of the Civic Museums of Bologna, author of the monograph on Baruzzi, our bust has all the characteristics to be considered a replica of the model exhibited in Brera, made by Baruzzi and his workshop to satisfy another customer in love with the beautiful head of Sappho. A replica that differs from the original in some small details but is identical in terms of executive quality.
Excellent state of conservation. Intact and completely free of restorations.
Measurements
H cm 55
W cm 28
D cm 20
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