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Double Head
Creator
Francesco PrimaticcioItalian Artist · 1504–1570
All works by this person →> [T]he first works in stucco that were done in France, and the first labors in fresco of any account, had their origin, it is said, from Primaticcio. > > --Giorgio Vasari After Primaticcio worked with Giulio Romano on decorations at Mantua's Palazzo del Tè, François I invited him to his palace at Fontainebleau in 1532. Aside from royal art-buying trips to Italy, Primaticcio remained there as cour
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1543
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Sculpture
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This intriguing sculpture was cast from the female head of the ancient marble statue *Cesi Juno* (Rome, Capitoline Museum), which Michelangelo described as the most beautiful object in Rome. It may be one of the bronze casts after antique Roman statues that the French king Francis I commissioned from Primaticcio, his court artist, for the château at Fontainebleau, outside Paris; *Double Head* is depicted in a print of about 1650 above the entrance to a garden at Fontainebleau. It then passed to several famous collectors, including the 18th-century connoisseur Pierre Crozat and the 20th-century designer Yves Saint Laurent.
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