Italian and Spanish Sculpture to 1600
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 25 Italian and Spanish sculptures which date from between 1000 and 1600. This collection includes sculpted items, made by or attributed to Italian or Spanish makers, which have been carved or cast using various materials. These sculptures vary greatly in scale, material and type. In size, they range from large-scale architectural elements to tiny figural pieces, and in technique from shallow-relief carvings to fully three-dimensional objects. The materials adopted include bronze, marble, and painted and/or gilded wood and ivory. The largest items are two impressive Italian medieval marble fonts, said to be of Veronese origin, and a fourteenth century limestone tomb effigy of a Spanish aristocrat, Don Ramon Peralta Y Espes. Smaller Italian marble sculptures, typical of the Renaissance period, include the 'Madonna and Child' attributed to Giovanni Gaggini. An almost life-size figure of St Catherine of Siena and a pair of gilded wooden angels represent Italian polychrome wooden sculpture, while elegant figures of the Madonna and St John the Evangelist, also in polychromed wood, are attributed to an as-yet unknown Spanish artist.
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