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Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Lecture
From Hand to Hand: the Artist, the Connoisseur and the bronze statuette
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
Past Event
Sir Nicholas Penny will discuss the origin of the bronze statuette and its relationship to the artist's preliminary model, also its special appeal for collectors - something to be turned in the hand and puzzled over by connoisseurs.
Tickets on sale on sale from 7 August.
Please note that the lecture ends at 19.30 and is followed by a drinks reception which ends at 20.00
Image: Venus Callipygos, 1600-1624, Antonio Susini (active about 1575-1624) (attributed to), bronze, Florence, V&A: A.141-1910, ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
