Cosimo’s Genius and Ammannati’s Ingenium: The Wax Model for the Genio Mediceo
In 2018 the Rijksmuseum acquired the wax modello for the Genio Mediceo (‘Genius of the Medici’), a bronze fountain statue that was made around 1557 in Florence by Bartolomeo Ammannati for the Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de’ Medici. It is Ammannati’s only known undisputed wax model. The attribution is...
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| Language: | English |
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The Rijksmuseum Publications Department
2020-12-01
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| Series: | The Rijksmuseum Bulletin |
| Online Access: | https://bulletin.rijksmuseum.nl/article/view/9518 |