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Male Nude
Creator
Tiziano AspettiItalian Artist · 1559–1606
All works by this person →Tiziano Aspetti belonged to the second generation of sculptors working in the dramatic *maniera* style in Venice. Named for his uncle, a successful sculptor, Tiziano was born in the Italian city of Padua in 1565 to a famous family of founders. He learned his skillful bronze casting technique in the family business and then studied sculpture with Girolamo Campagna, the most prominent sculptor in Ve
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- about 1600
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Sculpture
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Tiziano Aspetti, one of the most prominent sculptors in late sixteenth-century Venice, probably originally designed this small bronze statue of a nude male either as an andiron ornament or as one of a group of figures to be placed along a balustrade or in a collector's studio, known as a *studiolo* . In the 1400s, the image of the nude male and the use of bronze were revived as Italian artists looked back to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Though its subject is ancient, this work was conceived in a thoroughly innovative style of expressionistic and dramatic movement. In typical Mannerist style, the figure twists elegantly, revealing a play of shimmering effects on the surface as the light reflects off pronounced muscles. The figure's animated face, as if in mid-speech, was designed to engage the viewer, much as his pose encouraged the viewer to walk around the sculpture.
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