Lorenzo Vaccaro

Antonio Montauti, Diana the Huntress, Bronze, 1720-1740. MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- An important international exhibition, “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection” opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) February 6 and runs through May 15. Additionally, the MIA is presenting “Lost Wax, Found Sculpture,” an exhibition that explains the technique of making bronze sculpture according to the historically popular technique of lost-wax casting. Corneille van Clève (1646-1732),... [Lire la suite]

A bronze equestrian model of King Philip V of Spain, attributed to Lorenzo Vaccaro (1655-1706), circa 1705. Estimate £150,000 - 250,000. Sold £469,250 to an European Private. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010 On a later rectangular porphyry plinth; dark blackish brown patination wth warm medium brown high points; minor casting flaws and losses, 26 5/8 in. (67.6 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) high, overall. Provenance: With Fritzen, Drunen, The Netherlands, from whom acquired in 1998 or before July 1999 as 'An equestrian... [Lire la suite]