Best wishes

Description

The statue requires a specific study that is beyond the scope of this record. It is a work whose volume and surface characters recall modes of Ammannati and Bandinelli (the latter also noted by Inghiranni) filtered by a vibrant derivation from ancient statuary, observable also in the support from a tree trunk on which the crow rests. The head, modulated in the curls, leads back together with what has been observed so far, toward the sphere of Giovan Battista Caccini. In the eighteenth-century sources, the figure is indicated as an Augur, already placed there: the iconography is to be accepted on the basis of Ripa's text, which in fact identifies as an attribute of the haruspices "in any case the bird since the Romans looked at good news through the flight of birds, " pointing out that the crow is a symbol of bad omen