Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) was a Dominican friar who led a puritanical campaign against clerical corruption in Renaissance Florence.
His prophecies and protests led to him being excommunicated, hanged, and burned.
His prophecies and protests led to him being excommunicated, hanged, and burned.
I did this pencil drawing in London from a terracotta bust sculpted in the 19th century in imitation of a 1496 original.
I was struck by the rugged vigor of his profile. I tried to imagine I was looking the real man instead of an echo in clay.
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