Young Couple
Tullio Lombardo · 1505
Tullio Lombardo
Republic of Venice · 1455–1532
Tullio Lombardo, also known as Tullio Solari, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor. He was the brother of Antonio Lombardo and son of Pietro Lombardo. The Lombardo family worked together to sculpt famous Catholic churches and tombs. The church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo contains the Monument to Doge Pietro Mocenigo, executed with his father and brother, and the Monument to Doge Andrea Vendramin, an evocation of a Roman triumphal arch encrusted with decorative figures.
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Young Couple
Tullio Lombardo · 1505
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Young Couple is a c.1505 to 1510 Carrara marble relief sculpture by Tullio Lombardo, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It was previously known as Bacchus and Ariadne, whilst a recent study by Claudia Kryza-Gersch has suggested the alternative title of The Singing Poet and His Lover. It shows two busts on a rectangular background, drawing on similar works not only in ancient Roman funerary portraits but also North European double portrait paintings, the latter also sometimes adopted by Venetian painters in the early 16th century.
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