Master of the Budapest Abundantia
With master of Budapest Abundantia the unnamed artist is Renaissance designated the 1540s the template for a small sculpture of a Abundantia had created. A bronze statuette cast afterwards can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest . The master got his emergency name after this figure . Further copies of this Abundantia can be found in Berlin, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Munich and Vienna. The master represents Abundantia, the Roman personification of abundance as a woman. The bronze figures are hollow-cast , about 27 centimeters tall and are typical examples of small Renaissance sculptures based on the ancient Roman model.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Meller: The German bronze statuettes of the Renaissance. Munich 1926
- ↑ Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, inventory no. Pl.O. 561
literature
- Simon Meller: The German bronze statuettes of the Renaissance. Florence 1926
Web links
- Abundantia (bronze statuette), object catalog of the collections of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (with illustration)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master of the Budapest Abundantia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Renaissance artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |