Bust of Nicola Pisano, Tuscany 19th century

This large bust is part of the late nineteenth-century neo-Renaissance production.

It seems to us that we are in front of a portrait of Verrocchio, but we are instead in the 19th century. It is a terracotta modeled with a stick, and therefore made with a mold, hollow inside. The signature E. Salori, at least that is how it seems legible, at the moment finds no confirmation in the texts in my possession. Without a doubt, the sculptor who created this splendid portrait of Andrea Pisano was gifted with great technical ability, as the naturalistic rendering is grandiose. Furthermore, the creation of a terracotta of these dimensions involves technical difficulties, as it concerns the firing phase.

Since there are no similar portraits of the great Tuscan sculptor-architect, our artist was inspired by the woodcut printed on the frontispiece of Vasari's "Lives".