SCULPTURE & WORKS OF ART
Colnaghi will show this 22in (55cm) high alabaster fragment depicting two music-making putti by the Spanish Mannerist sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c.1488-1561). He studied under Michelangelo in Florence and this recently discovered work – probably from a tomb or part of a funerary chapel – is closely related to the putti which accompany the Cumean Sibyl in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel (1509).
COLNAGHI, LONDON
Stand number: 306
The small putti hold, with their fat fingers, Renaissance-era music…