Dancing Amorini with Bacchic symbols
Giovanni Antonio Santarelli Italian
Not on view
The mild gray ground is a foil for delicate movement and ornament. Giovanni Santarelli’s original wax-on-slate model (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) is oval. He expanded the compositional field onto a wider hexagon, from the outset sensing its suitability for a ring.
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