A Young Man
Medium
marble
Dimensions
26.5 × 20.6 × 5.1 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Accession Number
1991.75
Tags
male
About this artwork
During the late 1600s, Marinali produced several groups of profiles in low relief to decorate palaces in Venice. Traces of mortar appear on the back of this work, suggesting that it was once installed in masonry. Originally, the profiles would have been framed, probably with wood, and installed as part of a secular architectural decoration in a series, perhaps in a garden or on an entrance portal. These profile heads typically portrayed either virtuous male figures or anonymous studies of facial...