01 Sculpture , RELIGIOUS ART, Giambologna's Christ at the column - with footnotes #188

Attributed to Giambologna, Italian, Florence, 17th century

Christ at the column

Bronze, on turned ebonized wood socle

height 6¾ in.; 14.1cm.

Private collection

As Avery notes, the present model was attributed to Giambologna on the basis of the strong modeling of the body and the hands of the figure but is more likely to have been cast by a younger follower. There are at least two other identical versions, both of which were attributed to Antonio Susini, the first was from the Beit Collection, sold in Christie's, 7 December 2006, lot 197 and another formerly in the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection and exhibited at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. This model has also been variously ascribed to a French sculptor, perhaps associated with Prieur, due to the attention to detail, facture and color of the casts. More on this Sculpture

Christ at the Column (also known as The Flagellation of Christ). The sculpture shows the flagellation of Christ following his arrest and trial and before his crucifixion. The scene was traditionally depicted in front of a column, possibly alluding to the judgement hall of Pilate.  More on Christ at the Column

Giambologna (1529[1] – 13 August 1608) — (known also as Jean de Boulogne and Giovanni da Bologna) — was a Flemish sculptor based in Italy, celebrated for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.

Jean de Boulogne was born in Douai, Flanders (now in France), in 1529. After youthful studies in Antwerp with the architect-sculptor Jacques du Broeucq, he moved to Italy in 1550 and studied in Rome, making a detailed study of the sculpture of classical antiquity. He was also much influenced by Michelangelo, but developed his own Mannerist style, with perhaps less emphasis on emotion and more emphasis on refined surfaces, cool elegance, and beauty. Pope Pius IV gave Giambologna his first major commission, the colossal bronze Neptune and subsidiary figures for the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. Giambologna spent his most productive years in Florence, where he had settled in 1553. In 1563 he was named a member of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, under the influence of the painter-architect Giorgio Vasari, becoming also one of the Medicis' most important court sculptors. He died in Florence at the age of 79; the Medici had never allowed him to leave Florence, as they rightly feared that either the Austrian or Spanish Habsburgs would entice him into permanent employment. He was interred in a chapel he designed himself in the Santissima Annunziata. More on Giambologna

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