Antique sculpture of a Venetian Moor.
Venetian sculptor, early 18th century.
Carved, lacquered and gilded wood.
Height 155 cm.
Good overall condition, old repainting.
Original wooden sculpture depicting a Venetian Moor, wearing a cobalt blue livery, a striped white turban and a kilt with feathers tied at the waist, resting on a rocky base. Emblem of the Venetian sculptural tradition, depicted standing while holding a flowered cornucopia with his hands.
The work is original from the early 1700s, not one of the copies which, although pleasant, were made in later periods. Entirely original and excellently preserved, it has some repainting. It is made entirely of wood, carved in black lacquer, with gilded details, and finished in polychrome.
Observing the style of the carving, the sculpture in question evokes the works created in Florence, in particular by Jacopo Maria Foggini, and documented as early as the second half of the seventeenth century. Characteristics of Venetian secular furniture between the 17th and 18th centuries, these statues also spread to other regions.
We know that some were made in Florence in the 1680s by the engraver Jacopo Maria Foggini and by Baldassarre Permoser. The Foggini typology, still present in certain carving solutions in the base and on the bud, dates these specimens to the first half of the 18th century.
The history of the Moors, which has its roots in the Middle Ages with the tradition of jewelry, extends in the eighteenth century, during the maximum splendor of the power of the rich maritime republic, to all other areas of art, especially in sculpture and jewelry.
Emblem of the power of the Serenissima and status of well-being, wealth and power to celebrate the supremacy of the Republic over the seas of the Mediterranean, the figure of the Moor therefore becomes the main decoration for the ballrooms of the sumptuous halls of the Serenissima.
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