Renaissance Bronze

Renaissance painted enamels and their feature in devotional paxes: insights, ideas and observations

A survey of Renaissance painted enamels set within devotional pax frames yields ideas concerning certain enamel works-of-art, their maker’s relationship with patrons and other trades as well as certain reconsiderations concerning authorship and location. Observations concerning the presence of forgeries and pastiches are additionally discussed.
Donatello, the birth of Renaissance Plaquettes and their representation in the Berlin sculpture collection

Wilhelm von Bode’s spirit of acquisition in turn-of-the-century Berlin would result in forming a significant and comprehensive collection of Donatelloesque plaquettes, here explored for their function and influence in the genesis of plaquettes as a genre of sculpture.
Head of Christ – Fragment of a Compianto

A Florentine Head of Christ is possibly the work of Giovanni da Maiano
Michele di Giovanni da Fiesole and the origins of the Florentine plaquette

Two of the earliest Renaissance plaquettes, long associated with Donatello and his school, are probably the work of Michele di Giovanni da Fiesole.
Pietro Torrigiani – A St. Francis of Paola and ideas concerning his years before Spain

Vasari notes that Pietro Torrigiano carved sculptures in wood but no such works have been identified. A sculpture of St. Francis of Paola may possibly be the first and its subject may also suggest Torrigiano was active in Sicily before leaving Italy for Portugal and/or Spain.
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.
Head of Pan – Lorenzo, Michelangelo, Attila and a lost plaquette prototype

by Michael Riddick Download / Preview High-resolution PDFDownload / Preview Italian version translated courtesy of Sandro Ubertazzi The prototype and plaquette casts of the Head of Pan The present article concerns itself with the discovery of an engraved rock crystal, believed lost, which served as the master model for a bronze plaquette relief of a…