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Medici Madonna (model for Medardo Rosso's casts in bronze and wax over plaster)

Anonymous copy of Johan Gregor van der Schardt Dutch
 reduction of an original in marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian

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Like many sculptors before him, Rosso made studies from Michelangelo’s unfinished altar decoration in the Medici Chapel in Florence. Rosso found this anonymous plaster cast somewhere in or near the Musée de Louvre and cast it, along with other plaster reductions of famous ancient and Renaissance sculptures, in bronze and wax over plaster.

Medici Madonna (model for Medardo Rosso's casts in bronze and wax over plaster), Anonymous copy of Johan Gregor van der Schardt 's, Plaster

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