FIVE ENGRAVINGS AFTER BERNINI'S STATUES FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR RIVERS AND THE FOUNTAIN OF THE MOOR IN PIAZZA NAVONA, ROME by Francesco Aquila, for Domenico Rossi at Santa Maria della Pace, Rome; and of the Venus de’Medici, by F. Andriot, Rome, (49cm x 36cm), (6) PROVENANCE: CHARLES AVERY COLLECTION Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English, Flemish and Dutch. A graduate in Classics at Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge. Having been Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum for twelve years (1966-79), and a Director of Christies for ten years, since 1990 he has been a highly respected, independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer. His books include ‘Florentine Renaissance Sculpture’, 1970, ‘Giambologna the Complete Sculpture’, Phaidon, 1987, ‘Donatello: An Introduction’, John Murray, 1994; ‘Bernini, Genius of the Baroque’, Thames and Hudson, 1997 (paperback, 2006),  and ‘The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos’, 2008.