Artist: Workshop Of Severo Da Ravenna
Museum: The Frick Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, United States)
Technique: Sculpture
This bronze sculpture depicts Neptune (Poseidon in Greek mythology) battling a ferocious sea monster. It was probably designed as a desk accessory that would hold a quill pen in the monster’s mouth, and the seashell could have been used either to hold ink, or sand for blotting. Few signed works by Severo are known, one, a bronze Sea-Monster with a Shell on its Tail is in The Frick Collection, in New York. Sea monsters were a favorite theme of the artist who was known also as
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