Piero de'Medici

Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Marble bust in the Bargello, Florence by Mino de Fiesole circa 1468. Fiesole was a Florentine artist who worked on important figures of the time. Historically he was not praised as other sculptors were. He was known as a mild-mannered man with too many uncertainties and inconsistencies in his life. His busts were naturalistic and overly defined. He was an excellent craftsman and his use of colored marble helped to identify his works.

Description

A plaster cast of a marble portrait-bust of Piero de'Medici. Original housed in the Bargello, Florence, Italy, circa 1454.