Young Couple by Tullio Lombardo - ca. 1505/10 - 56 x 71 x 20 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum Young Couple by Tullio Lombardo - ca. 1505/10 - 56 x 71 x 20 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum

Young Couple

relief; stone sculpture • 56 x 71 x 20 cm
  • Tullio Lombardo - c. 1455 - November 17, 1532 Tullio Lombardo ca. 1505/10

It's Sunday, so we continue our special month with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.  :)  Enjoy!

The relief is one of the most beautiful sculptures of the Venetian Renaissance and a major work by Tullio Lombardo, the leading sculptor of the city. He thereby invented a new genre of functionless art expressly for private collectors, who were principally interested in antiquities and paintings: idealized portraits of dreamy figures in an antique style and with the format of an easel painting.

Beautiful, isn't it? Have a great end of the week.  :)

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