This is one of a group of busts of hideously old women by the same sculptor which may have mormed a series of the Three Fates. These were formely thought to be late-sixteenth century and to originate from the circle of Michelangelo, but they are in fact considerably later in date. The most credible attribution is to Montauti, who was active in Florence and later in Rome. He began as a medallist and bronze sculptor, and seems only to have turned his hand to marble in the mid 1720s.

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Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)