Portrait of a young woman, 19th century
19th century Portrait of a young woman Plaster, cm 50 x 40 xh 40 Dated 10 - 1 - MCMI The emergence of a "disheveled manner" in sculpture is affirmed since the 80s of the nineteenth century with Giuseppe Grandi, author of the Monument to the Five Days of Milan , Ernesto Bazzaro, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Leonardo Bistolfi up to the total formal dissolution of Medardo Rosso. In the analyzed sculpture the recovery of an intense colorism that creates the shapes by approximation, with a suggestive play of light and shadow is clearly visible. The process of diluting the form is here implemented through material fades that abolish the contours and the drawing, comparable with the evanescent painting of