Two of the earliest Renaissance plaquettes, long associated with Donatello and his school, are probably the work of Michele di Giovanni da Fiesole.
Tag: Florence
Pietro Torrigiani – Discovery of a St. Anthony in Wood
A sculpture of St. Anthony may be the first work in wood to be identified with Pietro Torrigiani, made famous for his brawl with Michelangelo and for spreading the Cinquecento style of Italian art throughout Europe.
Lorenzo’s son, from Life: a possible model, from life, of Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici
The discovery of a possible workshop model preserving a cast life-mask of Piero the Unfortunate, son of Lorenzo de’ Medici and a hypothesis concerning the terracotta Bust of a Youth at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello.
A proposal that the Rothschild bronzes, attributed to Michelangelo, are instead the work of Francesco da Sangallo
A visual comparison and historical survey is made between the work of Francesco da Sangallo and a bronze group of nude men riding beasts, presently attributed to Michelangelo.
