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Duendecillo alado

Sculptor/metalsmith close to Donatello Italian
1432
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 500
En 1436 se instaló una fuente en un patio en la casa florentina de Cosme de Médici, aún no convertida en el grandioso Palazzo Médici que hoy conocemos. Documentos indican que el proveedor fue el picapedrero Betto d’Antonio y que un pintor, Antonio, recibió un pago por dorar un spiritello (una suerte de duendecillo, a veces de naturaleza angelical) que hacía de remate. Ese spiritello es, casi con seguridad, este niño un tanto estrafalario, cuyo estilo se asemeja al de los ángeles de bronce que hizo Donatello para el Baptisterio de Siena en 1429. El escultor fusionó con desenfado los atributos de Mercurio, dios del comercio venerado por la familia Médici (dedicada a la banca), con los de Céfiro, el viento del oeste que los florentinos siempre reciben con agrado en el mes de mayo.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Duendecillo alado
  • Artista: Escultor seguidor de Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), italiano, 1386–1466
  • Fecha: ca. 1436
  • Material: Bronce dorado
  • Dimensiones: a. 61,6 cm
  • Crédito: Compra, donación de la Sra. de Samuel Reed, Fondo Rogers, por intercambio, y Fondo Louis V. Bell, 1983
  • Número de inventario: 1983.356
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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