Rape of Proserpina
Doccia Porcelain Manufactory|Giovanni Battista Foggini|Gaspero Bruschi|Marchese Carlo Ginori
ca. 1750 · Hard-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
In the 1740s Carlo Ginori, the founder of the porcelain factory at Doccia, acquired a number of sculptural models in wax, terracotta, and plaster made by some of the leading Florentine baroque sculptors. The challenge and reward for the porcelain modelers at the Ginori factory was to overcome the technical difficulties of this fragile new medium and to retain the dynamism and balance of the original models. This group, based on a bronze by Foggini, depicts Pluto stepping into the flames as he carries the struggling Proserpina off to the underworld.
- Artist
- Doccia Porcelain Manufactory|Giovanni Battista Foggini|Gaspero Bruschi|Marchese Carlo Ginori
- Date
- ca. 1750
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain
- Culture
- Italian, Florence
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1997
