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| Keywords: Zanobi Lastricati - Mercury - Walters 27312.jpg Mercury the messenger of the gods is typically depicted as a youth with wings on his hat or feet This monumental bronze statue commissioned by Lorenzo Ridolfi in 1549 and completed in 1551 formerly stood at the center of the courtyard of the Palazzo Ridolfi in Florence The inscription on the base states that the Florentine friends Zanobi Lastricati and Ciano Compagni made the figure in order to learn The latter was a perfume-maker employed by the duke of Florence and on the basis of an ancient marble sculpture of Mercury he made a model which Lastricati then used for casting the bronze The inscription expresses the idea that the sculptures of antiquity represented an ideal worthy of imitation The original pedestal was supported by bronze turtles now in an American private collection between 1549 1551 Renaissance bronze cm 196 8 accession number 27 312 5206 Lorenzo di Piero Ridolfi Palazzo Tornabuoni-Ridolfi Florence 1549 by commission Altemps Florence 1571 mode of acquisition unknown with the Palazzo Tornabuoni-Ridolfi Cardinal Alessandro de' Medici Florence date and mode of acquisition unknown with the Palazzo Tornabuoni-Ridolfi Corsi family Florence 1607 mode of acquisition unknown with the Palazzo Tornabuoni-Ridolfi Giovanni Corsi Florence prior to 1729 mode of acquisition unknown Corsi family Villa Corsi Salviati Sesto prior to 1879 by inheritance Sale Sesto 1879 Arthur Sambon Collection Paris 1880 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Translation Florentine friends Zanobi Lastricati and Ciano Compagni made the figure in order to learn The Legacy of Michelangelo Palazzo Strozzi Firenze; The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago; The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit 2002-2003 The Allure of Bronze The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Zanobi Lastricati Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
