Venetian sculptor, first half of the 18th century. Winter, stone statue (h. cm 183) (defects)   The bearded character, with a gaunt face over which intense hollowed-out eyes stand out, with a sophisticated, serpentine posture, wrapped in a robe of vigorous, swirling drapery, is a personification of Winter, as inferred from his senile, pensive appearance, his thick beard, and the warmer, the perforated pot to hold coals, lying at his feet. Approximate in its tapered forms and flowing beard to Winter in the Garden of Palazzo Bonaguro in Bassano del Grappa attributed to Paolo Callalo (Venice 1655 - 1725) (De Vincenti 2014, p. 73), this sophisticated sculpture aligns perfectly with the plastic and expressive virtuosity of early 18th-century Venetian statuary, with references also to the works of Giovanni Bonazza (La Sera, St. Petersburg, summer garden; Semenzato 1958-1959, p. 298), Francesco Bonazza (San Simeone, Venice, church of San Trovaso; Guerriero 2009, p. 223) and Antonio Bonazza.   Bibliography for reference: - C. Semenzato, Giovanni Bonazza, in “Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte”, 2, 1958-1959, pp. 283-314. - Simone Guerriero, Per un repertorio della scultura veneta del Sei e Settecento. I, in “Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte”, 33, 2009, pp. 205-292. - M. De Vincenti, Scultura nei giardini delle ville venete, Venezia 2014.

Estimate € 3,300 - 3,500