Christ the Redeemer
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Authors
Agnolo di Polo, attributed to
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Christ , Jesus , Redeemer
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Abstract
This terracotta sculpture is attributed to Agnolo di Polo (b. 1470 d. 1526), a follower of Verrocchio and collaborator of Giovanni della Robbia (to whom this sculpture has also been attributed). This three-quarter length image of Christ the Redeemer is a more ambitious version of the many terracotta busts of Christ produced by Verrocchio, his workshop, and his followers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The physical features of Christ are close to those of Verrocchio's bronze Christ (with the doubting Thomas at Orsanmichele). All of these images follow a description of Christ that was believed in the Renaissance to be written by an eye witness and thus accurate. The polychromy only partially survives on this work, which belong to the Conservatorio di San Girolamo, Montepulciano and is in deposit in the Museo Civico, Montepulciano. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Museo Civico, Montepulciano (property of the Conservatorio di San Girolamo, Montepulciano)
Citation
Andrew Butterfield, The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio (New Haven: Yale UP, 1997), 77, 212; Laura Martini, ed., Museo Civico Pinacoteca Crociani (Siena: Musei Senesi, 2000), 85-6, 194.