Bust

This is a marble bust made in about 1500-1550 in Lombardy, Italy. This bust is fully in the round and represents a bearded male figure, an Emperor, wearing a laurel wreath. The curve of the lower edge suggests that the bust was set in a circular opening, like those on the facade of the Colleoni Chapel at Bergamo. An analogy for the treatment of the hair and for the cutting of the eyes sockets and mouth occurs in the St. John the Baptist by Bambaia on the Birago Monument at Isola Bella.