Description
Plaster cast of a marble portrait-bust of Matteo Palmieri by Antonio Rossellino. Original is housed in the Bargello, Florence, Italy circa 1468.
Damaged during relocation (2025).
Publication Date
1978
Type of Artwork
Portrait bust
Time Period/Geographical Region
Renaissance Europe
Height (cm/in)
54.61 cm / 21.5 in
Width (cm/in)
55.88 cm / 22 in
Depth (cm/in)
31.75 cm / 12.5 in
Disciplines
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture | Sculpture
Recommended Citation
Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library., "Bust of Matteo Palmieri" (1978). Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection. 11.
https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/metropolitan_art_collection/11
Files
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Comments
The bust of the Florentine historian Matteo Palmieri was displayed over the exterior door of his home until the nineteenth century, a very unusual display in early Renaissance Florence. Because of this, it is damaged, and some of the detail has been effaced. The style of the portrait bust references the styles of late antiquity. Rossellino was a Florentine artist whose harmonious depictions and strong technical ability conveyed a sense of the individual in his portraits.