Notebook published for the exhibition "Body and Soul Italian Renaissance Sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo" at the musée du Louvre from October 22nd 2020 to January 18th 2021. Tullio Lombardo (1475 - 1532) Young Couple (Bacchus and Ariane) - c.1505-1510. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer The peculiarity of this relief and a similar one in the Cà d'Oro in Venice is that each time the double portrait of a young couple appears to be placed on a narrow base plate against a neutral background. Models for this were provided by the antique tomb sculpture and the type
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