Pietro Annigoni - "anonymous Florentine" Sculpture Silver 925 - Italy - 20th century

"Anonimo Fiorentino", high-relief in silver 925, made by master Pietro Annigoni in the 1970s, mounted on an elegant wooden board. Silver fineness hallmark 925. With original silversmith’s hallmark. Annigoni started his career at a very young age and studied at the Academy of fine arts, where somebody told him that devoting his life to art would have been like a “Via Crucis”. Hence the idea of his famous signature with three crosses with a letter “C”, for “Canonicus,” his nickname during his junior high. (A Painter of portraits and landscapes, and a sculptor, Annigoni has been defined as a Renaissance artist) As Bruno Morini said, “He is the successor of the Italian Renaissance masters, both for his style and his portrait technique. ”Dimensions with frame: 22x22 cm Sculpture diameter 16 cm Total weight approx. 1kg Silver weight 315 grams. In excellent condition, with eyelet for wall hanging, from a private collection.