Record for Hans Daucher sculpture as putti point to earliest example of Renaissance architecture in Germany
A pair of early 16th century carved stone putti was the toast of a recent auction at Sotheby’s Paris. Created for the chapel of a famous German Renaissance banking family, they sold as part of a collection from a French château for €1.95m (£1.71m).
When wealthy banking brothers Ulrich and Jacob Fugger of Augsburg decided in 1509 to erect a chapel …