The 60-centimeter-tall white marble bust depicts a veiled woman resting on its own integrated base, demonstrating Antonio Corradini's signature illusion of translucent drapery. Dorotheum auction house definitively credited the masterwork to the Venetian-born sculptor, who once served Emperor Charles VI in Vienna. Scholars verified the piece by referencing a matching plaster model preserved at the Ca’ Rezzonico museum in Venice, which was recently restored through the Save Venice initiative.
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The Vienna auction established a brand-new world record price for works created by sculpt…: The Vienna auction established a brand-new world record price for works created by sculptor Antonio Corradini.
Researchers confirmed the attribution using a comparative plaster model preserved at the…: Researchers confirmed the attribution using a comparative plaster model preserved at the Ca’ Rezzonico museum in Venice.
The artist previously served as the official court sculptor to Holy Roman Emperor Charles…: The artist previously served as the official court sculptor to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in Vienna.
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Your first look is all admiration. The face is calm, the lines are soft, and the veil is as translucent as it can get. The second look is accompanied by a question: how does a hard white stone turn into something that looks like cloth? By the time that question settles, you have stopped asking it. You are just standing there, a little more amazed than before.
A marble sculpture of a woman wearing a veil was sold for €1.925 million (around €1.9 million) at an auction in Vienna on 20 October, setting a new world record for a work by the Italian Baroque sculptor Antonio Corradini. Several bidders in the saleroom and on the telephone tried their best to take home the highly coveted sculpture of a veiled lady, the auction house Dorotheum said.
A face under a veil
The sculpture depicts a veiled woman carved in white marble. It stands 60 centimetres tall and is set on its own base. Veiled women were Corradini’s trademark, and this piece follows that pattern. The veil falls over the face without…
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