Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli, in three-quarter length next to a window pane containing a statuette and statuette fragments, the artist grasps with his right hand the head of a statuette resting at his left side

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli, in three-quarter length next to a window pane containing a statuette and statuette fragments, the artist grasps with his right hand the head of a statuette resting at his left side by Baccio Bandinelli|Niccolò della Casa|Baccio Bandinelli

Medium

Engraving; first state of two

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 11 9/16 × 8 3/8 in. (29.4 × 21.2 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.322

Tags

SculptureMenMale NudesPortraitsArtists

About the Artist

Baccio Bandinelli|Niccolò della Casa|Baccio Bandinelli · 14931560

Bandinelli was the son of Michelangelo de'Brandini, a successful Florentine goldsmith. Baccio was a loyal subject of the Medici, even when they were in exile 1494-1513; consequently he was rewarded by receiving commissions after the elections to the papacy of Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici) and Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), and after Cosimo de' Medici became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1537. His polit...

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