AN ITALIAN BRONZE MODEL OF THE FARNESE BULL

AN ITALIAN BRONZE MODEL OF THE FARNESE BULL
AFTER THE ANTIQUE
depicting Letus and Amphion attempting to tie Dirce to an enraged bull, with Endymion and Antiope, on a naturalistic base with a figure and fighting animals
39cm high, 31.5 x 30cm

Catalogue Note

The present bronze derives from the famous marble statue discovered in the Baths of Caracalla 1545.

Literature

See F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, pp. 166-167, no.15.