Alceo Dossena

Exhibited by Alessandra Di Castro

Material Marble high relief

Dimensions 78 x 50 x 10 cm

Place of Creation Rome (Italy)

Status Vetted

About the Work

Alceo Dossena was one of the most talented sculptors of twentieth-century Italy, a profound connoisseur of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century sculpture and a brilliant forger. His counterfeits are preserved today in major museums across the United States. This large-scale sculpture is among the artist’s most prestigious works of invention. It evokes the "Madonne col Bambino" by Desiderio da Settignano and Donatello, yet it is not intended as a forgery.

The marble surface and modelling are rendered with a modern sensitivity and spirit, reflecting a contemporary reinterpretation of the primitivism of Quattrocento Classicism and the early Renaissance which was a trend shared by many Italian sculptors and painters of the time.

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