A Laocoon by Filippo Della Valle, Zikos, Zikos, 9788874616749 Free Shipping+-

A Laocon by Filippo Della ValleAuthor(s): Dimitrios Zikos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Mandragora, Italy\nImprint: Mandragora\nISBN-13: 9788874616749, 978-8874616749\nSynopsis\nThis publication discusses a bronze Laocon recently sold at Bonhams. Its new owners attributed it to Giuseppe Piamontini [tel] because of its manufacture and its extremely close proximity to the Doccia model, the model employed for a porcelain Laocon produced in the factory set up by Carlo Ginori [tel] in 1737 at Doccia near Florence.\n\nLabelled as French and belatedly returned to Late Baroque Florence (but to the wrong artist), this magnificent group has finally revealed its identity. It is one of the incunabula of an ambitious young sculptor measuring himself with the sculptors of Ancient Greece and their great Renaissance followers of his native Florence. During the day he copied them in the Galleria degli Uffizi and in the streets of the city. At night he gathered together with other pupils of Foggini in.