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A bronze Bacchus wearing a Silenus mask, made for Antonio Londonio

01/2011 | 1294 | 153

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Author:

Wengraf, Patricia (Wengraf, Patricia)

Subjects

artists:

Vries, Adriaen de

artists:

Pellizzone, Andrea

buildings:

Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta, Lainate, Italy

dates:

1550-1599

patrons:

Londonio, Antonio

places:

Lainate / Italy

print:

Vries, Adriaen de

subjects:

Sculpture / Bronzes / Bacchus / Silenus / Provenance / Attribution

subjects:

Fountains

subjects:

Columns (architectural components) / Iconography / Greek iconography / Roman iconography

subjects:

Netherlandish sculpture / Italian sculpture

Illustrations

Attributed works:

14. Bacchus/Silenus, possibly by Adriaen de Vries(?). c.1579–80. Bronze, 89.5 cm. high. (Mr and Mrs J. Tomilson Hill, New York). Photograph: Maggie Nimkin, New York.

Attributed works:

18. The nymphaeum of Villa Litta (Weil-Weiss), Lainate, by Carlo Bossoli. 1852–53. Photograph of a now lost watercolour. (Civico Archivio Fotographfico, Milan).

Attributed works:

19. Detail of the south pulpit frontal, cast by Andrea Pellizzone. 1586. Thin repoussé copper sheets mounted onto a wood backing. (Milan Cathedral).

Attributed works:

20. Self-portrait, by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. c.1568–70. Canvas, 55 by 43 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).

Attributed works:

21. Detail of Fig.20 showing the hat badge worn by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo.

Attributed works:

22. Detail of Fig.14 showing the beard of Bacchus beneath the Silenus mask.

Attributed works:

23. Compà Digliagor, by Aurelio Luini. c.1568. Ink on paper, 12 by 8.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Western art unattributed:

15. Photograph of c.1910 showing the bronze Bacchus/Silenus on a marble column in the nymphaeum, known as the cortino delle piogge, at Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta di Lainate, near Milan. (Photograph: Civico Archivo Fotografico, Collection Lissoni 4972D, Castello Sforzesco, Milan).

Western art unattributed:

16. Detail of Fig.15 showing the inverted ‘umbrella’ apparatus emerging from the head of the bronze Bacchus/Silenus

Western art unattributed:

17. Cast in lead from the Bacchus/Silenus in Fig.14. c.1920s. (Uffici Comunali di Lainate). Photograph: Patricia Wengraf.

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