Bagpipe player

Description

Attributed by eighteenth-century sources to Valerio Cioli, the sculpture continues to be referred to him, but without precise stylistic consideration, which does not seem to support the hypothesis when compared with the artist's other works for the same garden. The statue was originally placed in the area, inserted in a niche in the wall of the seraglio, destroyed by Zanobi del Rosso to make way for the Limonaia . The charged tone of the figure, differentiates it from Cioli's descriptive yet antiquated manner, which is not lacking even in the two well-known court dwarfs executed for the same garden. The statue, which resembles in its grotesque vein, the dwarf attributed to Tribolo now in London, may be of more advanced years, already 17th century, confused with works by Cioli because of its familiarity to the theme. It should also be remembered that Simone Cioli was commissioned to finish some of his uncle's figures , including dwarfs, one of which Holderbaum recognized