Nike, Naples
gilded bronze on red marble
29″ h., ca. 1890
Chiurazzi foundry, Naples
This resplendent figure of the Greek goddess of victory replicates the features of a small, Classical Era statue now in the Naples Archaeological Museum. Almost certainly cast by that city’s Churazzi Foundry, established in 1840 by Gennaro Chiurazzi (1840 – 1906), a student of classicizing Neapolitan sculptor PIetro Masulli (d. 1876). More recently, Chiurazzi was commissioned by the Getty to provide a large number of Classical bronze statues for the Villa in Malibu, California.
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