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

The Judgment of Paris

c. 1555
Bronze, 14 x 14 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Two sketchbooks (Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf) give valuable information about Guglielmo's work in bronze, a medium he only began to use when he first came to Rome. His numerous bronze sculptures include 16 mythological reliefs after Ovid and are held in several collections (e.g. Kunsthistorisches Mueseum, Vienna; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

The present bronze relief is one of a series of eight octagonal plaquettes in Vienna.