A super etching by the Scottish artist William Renison depicting the equestrian monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice. Signed in pencil and in good condition in is original frame. The 395 cm high (excluding pedestal) Renaissance sculpture, in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, was executed by Andrea del Verrocchio in 1480-1488. It portrays the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni (who served for a long time under the Republic of Venice), and is the second major equestrian monument of Italian Renaissance, after Donatello‘s Equestrian statue of Gattamelata (1453).
Measures 40 cm wide by 35.5cm deep (66.6 cm by 61.5 cm in its frame).
£250