Giovanni Chellini

Signed and dated in 1456. This extraordinary portrait of the scholar and physician who treated Donatello is the first signed work by Rossellino. Made six years before the sitter died, the bust is undoubtedly based on a life-mask. It epitomises Rossellino's mastery of carving marble and also the taste for realistic portrait busts that developed in Florence around this time.

本作品创作于1456年，带有作者签名与创作纪年。这幅描绘曾医治多纳泰罗的学者兼医师的非凡肖像，是罗塞利诺首部署名作品。该胸像创作于坐者逝世前六年，无疑以生前面模（life-mask）为蓝本打造。它既彰显了罗塞利诺精湛的大理石雕刻技艺，也集中体现了彼时佛罗伦萨兴起的写实肖像胸像审美风尚。