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Angel Holding a Shield
Antonio Rizzo Italian
Antonio Rizzo was the main competitor to Pietro Lombardo and his sons in late fifteenth-century Venice. This standing angel holding a shield was carved in low relief with an extraordinary refinement that depends on the nuanced interplay between line and three-dimensional form. This work may have been one of a pair of angel reliefs that perhaps flanked a doorway to a house in Venice.
[Peter J. Bell, 2015]
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