a painting of a man with dark skin tone repairing a shoe, against a background of blue and yellow with other shoes and tools
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 57

"Sculpting Reputation: A Terracotta Bust of Senesino by Roubiliac"

Baker, Malcolm
2022
15 pages
10 illustrations
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 57 include essays on a crimson velvet “cloth of gold” associated with the Tudor dynasty; an exquisite pair of malachite torchères commissioned by the Russian Demidov family; and a drawing on muslin by Matȟó Nážiŋ detailing the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

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Francesco Bernardi known as "Il Senesino" (1686–1758), Louis François Roubiliac  British, born France, Terracotta, with later marble base, British
Louis François Roubiliac
ca. 1735

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———. 2023b. S.l.: UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS.