About 1435 Donatello was commissioned to make a container for the head of the early Christian martyr Saint Rossore. He transformed the traditional reliquary by endowing the third-century solider with the features of a contemporary person, thereby laying the groundwork for the Renaissance portrait bust. In effect, the relic of the actual saint (his skull) gained an outward living aspect. On loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, Italia.
(In the exhibition "The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini")
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About 1435 Donatello was commissioned to make a container for the head of the early Christian martyr Saint Rossore. He transformed the traditional reliquary by endowing the third-century solider with the features of a contemporary person, thereby laying the groundwork for the Renaissance portrait bust. In effect, the relic of the actual saint (his skull) gained an outward living aspect. On loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, Italia.
(In the exhibition "The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini")
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved)
website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook
Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org)
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