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The Ludovisi Tondo: a rediscovered sculpture by Jacopo della Quercia
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 5-14
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Cova, Paolo (Cova, Paolo)
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1. The central courtyard of Rocchetta Mattei. 2019. The Ludovisi Tondo is above the doorway on the right. (Photograph G. Castellani).
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10. Detail of Original sin, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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11. Detail of Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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12. Detail of the Drunkenness of Noah, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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13. Detail of the Sacrifice of Isaac, by Jacopo della Quercia, showing Abraham and the angel. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 97 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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14. Detail of Fig.5, showing the horse’s legs.
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15. Detail of The flight into Egypt, by Jacopo della Quercia, showing the donkey’s legs. 1432–34. Candoglia marble, 71 by 100 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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16. Detail of Fig.5, showing the horse’s muzzle.
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17–19. Detail of Fig.5, showing traces of polychromy on the armour; detail of Fig.19, showing painted decoration on the border of the Virgin’s cloak; and Virgin and Child, by Jacopo della Quercia. c.1430. Polychromed wood, height 178 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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2. Corbels from the tomb of Giovanni da Legnano, by Jacobello and Pierpaolo Dalle Masegne. 1383. Istrian stone, left corbel 75 by 30 by 76 cm.; right corbel 75 by 30 by 76.5 cm. (Rocchetta Mattei; photograph G. Castellani).
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20. The murder of Buondelmonte Buondelmonti at Ponte Vecchio, by Pacino di Buonaguida. c.1340. Tempera on parchment. (From Nuova Cronica by Giovanni Villani, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, MS L VIII 296).
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21. Detail of Fig.5, showing the armour.
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22. Detail of Virgin and Child with saints, by Jacopo della Quercia, showing St George. 1435–37. Marble, 102 by 98 cm. (Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna; photograph M. Berardi).
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23. Detail of the Horses of St Mark. 2nd or 3rd century AD. Gilt copper, 238 by 252 cm. (St Mark’s, Venice).
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24. Detail of Fig.5, showing the horse’s head.
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3. The central courtyard of Rocchetta Mattei. Photograph, c.1865. (Archivio A. Rapparini, Camugnano; photograph P. Poppi).
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4. The memorial to Niccolò and Giovanni Ludovisi, by Marcello Oretti. Pen and ink on paper. (Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna; MS B.114, c.261, fol.261).
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5. The Ludovisi Tondo, here attributed to Jacopo della Quercia. Here dated c.1428–32. Istrian stone, diameter 85 cm. (Rocchetta Mattei; photograph G. Castellani).
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6 and 7. Details of Fig.5 and Fig.9, showing the heads of Niccolò Ludovisi and Adam.
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8. Creation of Eve, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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9. Creation of Adam, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 97 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).