Gaddi Torso

The sculpture appears on a pedestal, among other vestiges of shattered Classical pagan culture, in the Adoration of the Shepherds that was painted in 1515 by the Bolognese painter Amico Aspertini, now in the Uffizi.

[8] Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition of the Dead Christ (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) has been inspired by careful study of the Gaddi Torso.

[9] In its earlier history the Gaddi Torso[10] may have been in the collection of the great early Renaissance sculptor of Florence, Lorenzo Ghiberti,[11] "who", according to Giorgio Vasari: to say nothing of his own performance, bequeathed many relics of antiquity to his family,[12] some in marble, others in bronze.

Among these was the bed of Polycretus[13] which was a most rare thing; a leg of bronze, of the size of life, with certain heads, male and female, and some vases, which Lorenzo had caused to be brought from Greece at no small cost.

Some of these antiquities were sold to Messer Giovanni Gaddi, then 'Cherico di Camera';[14] and among them was the aforesaid bed of Polycletus, and some other matters, which formed the better part of the collection.