Antique Art and Arms Fall Auction
Lot 119:
Leon Mignon Bronze Statue of a 15th century Italian General Bartolomeo Colleoni. In period dress and armor. Signed. Artist lived 1847 to 1898. On carved green marble base. Measures 17" x 14 1/2" Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400, 2 November 1475) was an Italian condottiero, who became captain-general of the Republic of Venice. Colleoni "gained reputation as the foremost tactician and disciplinarian of the 15th century". He is also credited with having refurbished the Roman baths at Trescore Balneario.Colleoni was born in Solza, in the countryside of Bergamo (then part of the Duchy of Milan), where he prepared his magnificent mortuary chapel, the Cappella Colleoni, in a shrine that he seized after it was refused him by the local confraternity, the Consiglio della Misericordia. His family was a noble one, exiled with the rest of the Guelphs by the Visconti. Bartolomeo’s father Paolo seized the castle of Trezzo by wile and held it by force, until he was assassinated by his cousins, probably acting on order of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan. Provenance – Florida Estate.
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