Author
Follower of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date
Early 16th century
Technique
Wood Sculpture, tempera
Size
Height 74 cm
Description:
The author of this polychrome wooden sculpture shows himself in line with the monumental context of the Florentine sixteenth-century period.
The plastic rendering approaches Michelangelo's stylistic modes whose full, turned volumes confirm its proximity.
The gilded drapery that envelops the saint's body, the torso rotating in a twist, and the plastic description of the forearm protruding from the garment, come close to Michelangelo's Madonna and Child made in 1520 for the Medici