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The Fall of Phaethon
Portrait of Francesco I d’Este
Bust of Francesco I d’Este
Bust of Ercole II d'Este
Cello
Boy with thorn
Venus and Love
Double Harp
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Head of an old man
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The Fall of Phaethon
Portrait of Francesco I d’Este
Bust of Francesco I d’Este
Bust of Ercole II d'Este
Cello
Boy with thorn
Venus and Love
Double Harp
Venus, Mars and Cupid
Head of an old man
Sacred Love defeating profane Love
The Gonzaga Vase

Head of an old man

Guido Mazzoni

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Galleria Estense

Galleria Estense

Largo Porta Sant'Agostino, 337, Modena

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This terracotta sculpture is an example of the realism that Guido Mazzoni (1450 - 1518) succeeds in impressing on his creations, in harmony with the highest results of the artistic culture of the Po Valley in the second half of the fifteenth century, following the lessons of Donatello and Mantegna . Even if the polychromy is not the original one, it still gives the idea of ​​how the sculpture should appear at the time of its realization. Coming from the collection of the Calori Cesi accounts of Modena, but originally in the collection of Pietro Vitali in Busseto, the head entered the Estense Gallery in 1909. It may be what remains of the lost Compianto already in the church of San Lorenzo in Cremona, of we have news of this thanks to the handwritten notes written in the early sixteenth century by the Venetian patrician Marcantonio Michiel (1484–1552).
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Title: Head of an old man

Author: Guido Mazzoni

Date: 1480-85

Technique: Terracotta

Displayed in: Galleria Estense

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