Fernando Tacca (1619 - Florence - 1686), Documentary reduction of the monument to Ferdinando I De’ Medici in Livorno, Florence, Italy. Bronze, red jasper panels, gilt bronze, gilt metal, pearwood base, 29 cm (11.4 in.). Image courtesy Carlo Orsi - Trinity Fine Art / Stand 337.

A Highly Important Documentary Reduction of the Monument to Ferdinando I de’ Medici in Livorno by Giovanni Bandini (Florence 1540 – 1599) and Pietro Tacca (Carrara 1577 – Florence 1640).

Provenance: London, Mr Greenwood, 1766 (his sale, Prestage, Hanover Square, London, 1st February, lot 44); Scone Palace, David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (1727-1796); Thence by descent; London, Christie’s King Street, 2007 (Scone Palace and Blairquhan: The Selected Contents of Two Great Scottish Houses, 24th May, lot 225); New York, with Tomasso Brothers, 2008 (their catalogue, Scultura, no. 18, cat. entry by Dr. Anthea Brook); New York, with Trinity Fine Art Ltd., 2010; Private collection, Rome

Literature: Anthea Brook, Pietro Tacca a Livorno. Il monumento a Ferdinando I de' Medici, Leghorn, 2008, 42-4 
Anthea Brook, The Slave in European Art, From Borgo Pinti to Doccia, the afterlife of Pietro Tacca's moors for Livorno, London, 2012, 174-5.

Francesco de' Rossi known as Il Salviati (Florence, 1510 - Rome, 1563), Portrait of a gentleman, Rome, circa 1538. Oil on slate, 82 x 53.5 x 1.8 cm (32.3 x 21 x 0.7 in.) Inscription on the medal 'CHE・CHI / MUORE・ONORATO / VIVE/ SEMPRE'. Image courtesy Carlo Orsi - Trinity Fine Art / Stand 337.

Literature: C. Mombeig-Goguel, Per la storia dell'arte in Italia e in Europa. Studi in onore di Luisa Mortari, Attualità della ricerca su Francesco Salviati, dieci anni dopo la monografia di Luisa Mortari, Rome, 2004, pp. 208-21.

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