Describe the characteristics of the A masterpiece by Jean Rancy in Lady Tholose's A Renaissance bronze.
Demonstrating a remarkable aesthetic and technical mastery for his time, Jean Rancy produced a work that constitutes an essential milestone in French Renaissance sculpture. The fact is all the more noteworthy that it is an extremely rare example of a large bronze figure being cast outside the French royal workshops in the 16th century.Lady Tholose is distinguished by the mastery of the wet drapery, the science of gestures, torsions and multiple points of vision that Jean Rancy demonstrated early on. If the face with its regular features and wavy hair correspond to the classical canons, the work stands out by its dynamism: camped on a single support, its movement is accompanied by the flight of sinuous and strongly hollowed folds. Its bare bosom and a short antique dress plated by the wind on the generous forms of its body emphasize its feminine sensuality.Made more than 15 years before Giambologna's Flying Mercury, Lady Tholose is characterized for its technical and aesthetic ambition.
Lady Tholose : the work of art
Jean Rancy Giambologna