Severo Calzetta da Ravenna - Dragon, bronze, 18th century
Summary
After a composition by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna (Italian, active by 1496, died before 1543)
Severo (Calzetta) da Ravenna 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. Severo specialized in small bronzes, and 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. Pomponius Gauricus mentions Severo in his chapter on bronzes in De Sculptura (1504).
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severo calzetta da ravenna
bronze
copper alloy
figurines
metal
sculpture
statues
after a composition by severo calzetta da ravenna
sculpture bronze
european
dragon
images of dragons
18th century
italian art
3 d object
statue
ravenna
metropolitan museum of art
medieval art
italian renaissance
apennine peninsula
Date
1000 - 1500
in collections
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)