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Study Models of Parts of the Body
Also titled Studiemodellen van lichaamsdelen
Johan Gregor van der Schardt (Nijmegen, 1530–ca.)
c. 1560 - c. 1570
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- model
- Dimensions
- height 7.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Frits en Phine Verhaaff Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and Mr William Middendorf II, Little Compton
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This group of small models of parts of the body are carefully copied after famous sculptures, in particular by Michelangelo, in Florence and Rome. They came from the workshop of the Nijmegen sculptor Johan Gregor van der Schardt, who had a successful career in Italy, Nuremberg, and Copenhagen. They are extremely rare examples of the, in part autograph, study material of a 16th-century sculptor.
