Severo Calzetta da Ravenna
Illustration — Boy carrying a shell, Bode-Museum • Illustration — Satyr-bust-shaped oil lamp with raptor claw, Bode-Museum Severo (Calzetta) da Ravenna or Severo di Domenico Calzetta (active ca 1496 – ca 1543) was an Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance and Mannerism, who worked in Padua, where he is likely to have finished his training, in Ferrara and in Ravenna, where he first appears in a document of 1496. Though Severo specialized in small bronzes, his only securely documented work is the marble St John the Baptist, signed by him, which was commissioned in 1500 for the entrance to the chapel of St Anthony in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua and remains in place. Though he produced religious figures, such as the Corpus from a crucifix in the Cleveland Museum of Art, his main subjects were pagan, including dragons and satyrs, and functional objects, such as inkwells, candlesticks, and oil lamps.
Also recorded as Severo da Ravenna · Severo Calzetta · Severo di Ravenna · Severo di Domenico Calzetto
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna
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- Died
- 1543 · Ravenna.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- sculptor · artist · founder
- Fields
- animal art · nude · figure
- Known for
- A Child Standing · Kneeling Satyr Supporting the Figure of an Emperor · La Panisca de Muri · Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents · Saint Sebastian
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Illustration — Boy carrying a shell, Bode-Museum • Illustration — Satyr-bust-shaped oil lamp with raptor claw, Bode-Museum Severo (Calzetta) da Ravenna or Severo di Domenico Calzetta (active ca 1496 – ca 1543) was an Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance and Mannerism, who worked in Padua, where he is likely to have finished his training, in Ferrara and in Ravenna, where he first appears in a document of 1496. Though Severo specialized in small bronzes, his only securely documented work is the marble St John the Baptist, signed by him, which was commissioned in 1500 for the entrance to the chapel of St Anthony in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua and remains in place. Though he produced religious figures, such as the Corpus from a crucifix in the Cleveland Museum of Art, his main subjects were pagan, including dragons and satyrs, and functional objects, such as inkwells, candlesticks, and oil lamps.
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Pomponius Gauricus mentions Severo in his chapter on bronzes in De sculptura (1504), without identifying any subjects. A mark of his convincing style all'antica is the fact that a bronze bust of a bearded man wearing a toga in the collection of the Rijksmuseum was long considered to be a Roman bronze.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are animal art, nude and figure. Places of work recorded in the authority are Padua. Works named in the authority record are A Child Standing, Kneeling Satyr Supporting the Figure of an Emperor, La Panisca de Muri, Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents and Saint Sebastian. Work by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Frick Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Fund.
• Neptune on a Sea Monster, c. 1500-10, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts • Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child with the Globe of the World (c. 1500/1509) The two figures had become separated, and their identities unrecognized, the Christopher mistaken for an Atlas (Louvre) and the Christ Child for a boy with a ball (National Gallery), until detective work by art historian Bertrand Jestaz reunited them. • Saint Sebastian, c 1520, bronze (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC One of in the National Gallery.
Exhibit in the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Germany. This work is in the public domain because the artist died more than 100 years ago. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
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Italian, Ravenna or Padua; Inkwell; Sculpture-Bronze
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- Patrick M. de Winter, 1986. "Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts. Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo da Ravenna" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (March 1986).
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