PORTA, Guglielmo della
(b. ca. 1505, Porlezza, d. 1577, Roma)

Bust of Pope Paul III

c. 1547
Marble
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

From c. 1544 Guglielmo was patronized by the Farnese pope Paul III, producing bronze and marble busts of him. The preferential relation between Della Porta, the Lombard sculptor-monk, and Paul III is confirmed by the striking bust in two colours (white marble and Numidian yellow) of Paul, completed about 1547 in Rome.