Bust of Camilla Barbadori, Baroque marble bust at Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark.
The Bust of Camilla Barbadori is a marble sculpture roughly 60 centimeters tall that portrays the mother of Pope Urban VIII. The refined carving of her facial features demonstrates the artist's skill in capturing likeness through stone.
This sculpture was created in 1619 as a posthumous tribute to a woman who had passed away a decade before. It came from a period when portrait busts were increasingly commissioned to preserve the memory of notable figures.
The bust reflects the Baroque tradition of capturing the likeness of influential women through sculpture for generations to remember. Such portrait works served as ways to preserve the memory of important figures within powerful families.
This sculpture is housed in the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen as part of the permanent European sculpture collection. Visitors can see it displayed alongside many other marble works from the same period.
This work was created by an artist when he was only 20 years old. It stands as one of his earliest portrait sculptures and already displays the technical mastery that would later make him renowned.
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