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Castiglione Olona: a new chronology for the frescos of the Collegiata
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 696–711
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Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
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1. Stories of the Virgin Mary, St Lawrence and St Stephen, by Masolino, Vecchietta and Paolo Schiavo (attributed). c.1433–44. Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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10. Detail from St Catherine destroying the idols, by Masolino, showing the Emperor Maxentius. c.1428. Fresco. (Chapel of St Catherine, S. Clemente, Rome; Scala Archives).
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11. Stories of St Lawrence, attributed to Paolo Schiavo (lunette) and Vecchietta (lower registers). c.1433–43 and 1442–44 respectively. Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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12. Stories of St Stephen, attributed to Paolo Schiavo (lunette and middle register) and Vecchietta (steps and lower register). c.1433–43 (lunette and middle register) and 1442–44 (steps and lower register). Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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13. Stories of St Stephen, attributed to Paolo Schiavo (lunette and middle register) and Vecchietta (stone ground and lower register). c.1433–43 (lunette and middle register) and 1442–44 (stone ground and lower register). Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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14. Trinity (lunette), attributed to Paolo Schiavo. c.1433–43. Fresco. Donors and self-portrait (lower registers), by Vecchietta. 1442–44. Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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15. Stories of St Lawrence, attributed to Paolo Schiavo (lunette) and Vecchietta (lower registers). c.1433–43 and 1442–44 respectively. Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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16. Stories of the Virgin Mary, by Masolino. c.1433–44. Fresco. (Vault of the apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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17. Triptych of the Virgin and Child, St Lawrence and St Stephen, by Caronese masters. c.1432–43[?]. Stone with nineteenth-century polychromy. (Chapel of S. Clemente, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Francesco Bini).
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18. High altar of the Collegiate Church, by Ugo Zuecca. 1930. Gelatin silver print, 18 by 24 cm. (Raccolte Fotografiche del Castello Sforzesco, Civico Archivio Fotografico, Comune di Milano).
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19. Donors, by Vecchietta. c.1442–44. Fresco. (Chapel of St Martin, Palazzo Branda, Castiglione Olona; photograph Francesco Bini).
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2. Stories of St John the Baptist, by Masolino. c.1433–43. Fresco (detached). (Chapel of St John, later Baptistery, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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20. St John the Baptist in the wilderness (predella panel from the S. Lucia dei Magnoli polyptych), by Domenico Veneziano. c.1445(?). Tempera on panel, 28.4 by 31.8 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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21. St John in the wilderness, by Masolino. c.1433–43. Fresco. (Chapel of St John, later Baptistery, Castiglione Olona; photograph Nathaniel Silver).
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22. Lionello d’Este, by Pisanello. 1441. Tempera and mixed media on panel, 19.6 by 29.2 cm. (Pinacoteca dell’Accademia Carrara, Bergamo).
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23. Detail of Scene of the Brazen Serpent, by Vecchietta and assistants, showing a head in profile. 1446–49. (Old Sacristy, Complesso Museale di S. Maria della Scala, Siena; courtesy The Frick Collection, New York).
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25. Self-portrait, by Vecchietta. 1442–44. Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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26. Man in a blue cap, by Jan van Eyck. c.1430s. Oil on panel, 22.5 by 16.6 cm. (Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu).
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3. Decoration of the Castiglioni palatine chapel, by Vecchietta. c.1442–44. Fresco. (Chapel of St Martin, Palazzo Branda, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
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4. Vision of the Blessed Sorore, by Vecchietta. 1441. Fresco. (Pellegrinaio di mezzo, Complesso Museale di S. Maria della Scala, Siena; Scala Archives).
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5. Masolino’s signature in the vault of the apse of the Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona. 1433–43. (Photograph Franco Canziani).
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8. Detail from Encounter between Melchizedek and Abraham after the liberation of Lot, by Vecchietta and assistants, showing Melkizedek. 1446–49. Fresco. (Old Sacristy, Complesso Museale di S. Maria della Scala, Siena; courtesy The Frick Collection, New York).
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9. Detail from the Stoning of St Stephen, attributed to Paolo Schiavo, showing a bystander. c.1433–44. Fresco. (Apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph Franco Canziani).
Western art unattributed:
24. Chandelier. Flanders (Dinant) or Germany (Nuremberg). c.1420–40. Brass, 120 by 110 cm. (Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona).
Western art unattributed:
6. The date mccccxxx (1435) in the vault of the Baptistery, Castiglione Olona, by an anonymous restorer, c.1859–70. Medium unknown. (Photograph Franco Canziani).
Western art unattributed:
7. Graffito by an anonymous writer. 1447. Incision on fresco. (Bottom register, apse, Collegiate Church, Castiglione Olona; photograph the author).
Book Review
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 92-93
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Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
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A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena Edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton. 356 pp. incl. 19 col. ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021), €160. ISBN 978–90–04–38999–1. | :
Article
Sano di Pietro, Vecchietta and two Jachomo d’Andreuccios
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 652-667
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Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
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1. Birth of the Virgin, by Sano di Pietro. 1448–52. Tempera and gold on panel, 31.8 by 47.2 cm. (University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor).
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10. St Luke, by Simone Martini, originally part of the Pala dei Signori. c.1326. Tempera and gold on panel, 67.5 by 48.3 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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10. St Luke, by Simone Martini, originally part of the Pala dei Signori. c.1326. Tempera and gold on panel, 67.5 by 48.3 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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11. Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini, originally part of the Pala dei Signori. c.1326. Tempera and gold on panel, 58.7 by 39.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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12. Reconstruction of the altarpiece for the Compagnia della Vergine by Sano di Pietro. (Michael Mallory and Gaudenz Freuler).
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13. Reconstruction of the Pala dei Signori by Simone Martini with the predella of the Life of the Virgin by Sano di Pietro. (Keith Christiansen).
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14. Virgin and Child with angels, St Dominic, St Jerome, St Augustine, St Francis and the Blessed Giovanni Colombini (the Gesuati Polyptych), by Sano di Pietro. 1444. Tempera and gold on panel, 320 by 282 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena).
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15. Stories of the Passion, by Michele di Matteo da Bologna. 1447. Fresco. (Baptistery, Siena).
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16. Angel of the Annunciation, by Sano di Pietro. 1450s. From the Bichi altarpiece in S. Pietro, Castelvecchio, Siena. Tempera and gold on panel, diameter 41.5 cm. (Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra, Oratorio di S. Bernardino, Siena).
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17. Virgin Annunciate, here attributed to Sano di Pietro, from the Bichi altarpiece in S. Pietro, Castelvecchio, Siena. The outline indicates its original shape. 1450s. Tempera and gold on panel, 35.5 by 17.6 cm. (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown).
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18. Detail of Virgin and Child, attributed to Francesco di Vannuccio. c.1370–80. Tempera and gold on panel, 95 by 52 cm. (S. Domenico, Siena).
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19. The Andreucci coat of arms. Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. (From G. Macchi: Memorie, Archivo di Stato, Siena, MS D106, c.3).
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2. Presentation of the Virgin at the temple, by Sano di Pietro. 1448–52. Tempera and gold on panel, 31.5 by 47.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Vatican, Rome).
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20. Detail of Fig.3, showing the bowl of coins.
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21. Annunciation with St Ansanus and St Margaret, by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi. 1333. Tempera and gold on panel, 184 by 168 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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22. Detail of Fig.3, showing one of the colonettes added in the nineteenth century.
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23. Detail of Fig.21, showing one of the colonettes added in the nineteenth century.
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24. Virgin and Child with St Peter, St John the Baptist, St Paul and St Francis (Pala della Neve), by Stefano di Giovanni, known as Sassetta. 1432. Tempera and gold on panel, 240 by 256 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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25. Madonna of the girdle with St Catherine of Alexandria and St Francis, by Andrea di Giusto Manzini. 1437. Tempera and gold on panel, 210 by 220 cm. (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Florence).
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26. Assumption of the Virgin with St Pius, St Agatha, St Callistus and St Catherine of Siena, by Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta. c.1462. Tempera and gold on panel, 280 by 225 cm. (S. Maria Assunta, Pienza).
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3. Virgin and Child with a magus, St Bartholomew, St James, St Dominic, St Andrew and St Lawrence, by Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta. 1457. Tempera and gold on panel, 235 by 198 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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4. Marriage of the Virgin, by Sano di Pietro. 1448–52. Tempera and gold on panel, 31.5 by 47.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome).
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5. Assumption of the Virgin, by Sano di Pietro. 1448–52. Tempera and gold on panel, 31.5 by 47.2 cm. (Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg).
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6. Return of the Virgin to the house of her parents, by Sano di Pietro. 1448–52. Tempera and gold on panel, 31.7 by 47.4 cm. (Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg).
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7. St Peter, by Simone Martini, originally part of the Pala dei Signori. c.1326. Tempera and gold on panel, 58 by 38.5 cm. including frame not shown (Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
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8. St Ansanus, by Simone Martini, originally part of the Pala dei Signori. c.1326. Tempera and gold on panel, 57.5 by 38.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. St Andrew, by Simone Martini, originally part of the Pala dei Signori. c.1326. Tempera and gold on panel, 57.2 by 37.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Siena and the Angevins, 1300–1350: Art, Diplomacy, and Dynastic Ambition
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 379
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Gardner, Julian (Gardner, Julian)
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Siena and the Angevins, 1300–1350: Art, Diplomacy, and Dynastic Ambition By Diana Norman. 272 pp. incl. 50 col. + 55 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2018),  106.50. ISBN 978–2–503–57436–3. | :
Article
Donatello, musical sculpture, and the shock of sound
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 904-915
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Bloch , Amy R. (Bloch , Amy R.)
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1. Detail of Fig.6.
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10. Detail of Fig.6.
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11. Detail of Fig.6, showing Head of a man, by Donatello and workshop. c.1439 (gilded 1456). Bronze with traces of gilding, 45 by 35 by 30 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence).
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12. Detail of Fig.6, showing Head of a man, by Donatello and workshop, with Michelozzo (?). c.1439 (gilded 1456). Bronze with traces of gilding, 45 by 35 by 33 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence).
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13. Martyrs’ door of the Old Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence, by Donatello. c.1437–43, bronze, 235 by 109 cm. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
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14. Apostles’ door of the Old Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence, by Donatello. c.1437–43, bronze, 235 by 109 cm. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
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15. Detail of Fig.13
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16. Detail of Fig.14, with one handle rotated.
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2. Winged trumpeter from the font in the baptistery of Siena Cathedral, by Donatello. 1429. Bronze, height 36 cm. (Bridgeman Images).
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3. Detail of the tomb of Rainaldo Brancacci in Sant’Angelo a Nilo, Naples, by Donatello and Michelozzo. c.1426–28. Marble. (Scala).
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4. Feast of Herod from the font in the baptistery of Siena Cathedral, by Donatello. 1423–27. Bronze with gilding, 60 by 60 cm. (Bridgeman Images).
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5. Cantoria, by Luca della Robbia. 1431–38. Marble, 328 by 560 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Cantoria, by Donatello. 1433–39. Marble, glass, ceramic, gold, bronze, 348 by 570 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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7. Pulpit of the Cathedral of Santo Stefano, Prato, by Donatello and Michelozzo. 1428–38 (figural reliefs by Donatello, 1433–38). Marble, ceramic, gold, each relief 73.5 by 79 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Prato; photographed post-restoration).
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8. The Cavalcanti Annunciation in S. Croce, Florence, by Donatello. c.1428–33. Partially gilded sandstone (macigno), height 420 cm.; width at base 248 cm.; width at top 274 cm. (Bridgeman Images).
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9. Detail of Fig.6. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
Book Review
Die Stadt von der Neuzeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert: Urbane Entwürfe in Europa und Nordamerika. By Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 92-93
Article
Evidence for Florentine patronage in two liturgical manuscripts illuminated by Rinaldo da Siena
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 630-639
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Battaglia, Laura Alidori (Battaglia, Laura Alidori)
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Battaglia, Marco (Battaglia, Marco)
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1. Initial A, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.2r).
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10. Initial D for the introit of the nativity of a virgin saint, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.175r).
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11. Initial E, by Rinaldo da Siena. From De Regimine Principum Parigi by Egidio Romano, after 1285. Tempera on parchment, 33.5 by 24 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Ital.233, fol.130r).
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12. Initial E for the Feast of St John the Evangelist, here attributed to Rinaldo da Siena. From a Camaldolese missal, late 1280s to early 1290s. Tempera on parchment, 37.5 by 24 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.B.67, fol.21v).
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13. Initial I, by Rinaldo da Siena. From Mulomedicina by Vegezio. c.1275. Tempera on parchment, 21.5 by 15.5 cm. (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS Plut.45.19, fol.95r).
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14. Initial I for the introit of the nativity of a non-papal martyr, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.118v).
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15. Initial I for the introit of the Feast of St John the Evangelist, here attributed to Rinaldo da Siena, From a Camaldolese missal, late 1280s to early 1290s. Tempera on parchment, 37.5 by 24.0 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.B.67, fol.18v).
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16. Crucifix, by Rinaldo da Siena. c.1275–1300. Tempera on panel, 313 by 248 cm. (Museo Civico, San Gimignano).
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2. Vegezio with two assistants and a horse, by Rinaldo da Siena. From Mulomedicina by Vegezio. c.1275. Tempera on parchment, 21.5 by 15.5 cm. (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS Plut.45.19, fol.2r).
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3. Egidio Romano presents his work to Philip IV of France, by Rinaldo da Siena. From De Regimine Principum Parigi by Egidio Romano, after 1285. Tempera on parchment, 33.5 by 24 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS.Ital.233, fol.19r)
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4. Top left Initial G with the Stigmatisation of St Francis, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 52.9 by 37.2 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, MS 71v).
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5. Top right Initial D at the introit to the Feast of St John the Baptist, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.79r).
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6. Bottom left Initial C at the introit to the Feast of St Lawrence, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.89r).
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7. Bottom right Initial G at the introit to the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.91r).
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8. Incipit page, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Camaldolese missal, late 1280s to early 1290s. Tempera on parchment, 37.5 by 24 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.B.67, fol.10r).
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9. Initial C at the introit to the feast of Sts Philip and James, by Rinaldo da Siena. From a Franciscan gradual, here dated c.1275–80. Tempera on parchment, 53 by 37 cm. (Private collection, fol.72r).
Book Review
Rugs in Late Medieval Siena; Carpet Studies 1300–1600. By Marco Spallanzani
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 429-430
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Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
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2. Marriage of the Virgin, by Niccolo di Buonaccorso. c.1380. Egg tempera on poplar, 50.9 by 33 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Book Review
Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Edited by Alessandro Bagnoli, Roberto Bartalini and Max Seidel
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 346-347
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Lubbock, Jules (Lubbock, Jules)
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2. Detail from Presentation at the Temple, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. 1342. Tempera on wood, 257 by 168 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Article
Borromini in Siena
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 702-714
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Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt (Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt)
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Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
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10. Crucifix Chapel, S. Martino, Siena. 1660-64. The frame and altar based on a design by Francesco Borromini. c.1664, with Christ on the cross with mourning Virgin and St John, by Giovanni di Stefano. 1480s (Photograph: Fabio and Andrea Lensini)
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11. The Gori Chapel, S. Martino, Siena, with the coloured marble frame and altar by Ascanio Cavoni da Cortona, c.1620, and the Circumcision by Guido Reni (Photograph: Fabio and Andrea Lensini)
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12. Detail of the pedestals flanking the altar in the Crucifix Chapel in S. Martino showing the Landucci arms (Photograph: Fabio and Andrea Lensini)
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16. Portrait of Ambrogio Landucci, from A. Landucci: Sacra Leccetana Selva, Rome 1657, designed and etched by Guillaume Valet (Florence, Berenson Library)
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17. Frontispiece and title page of A. Landucci: Sacra Leccetana Selva, Rome 1657, designed by Raffaello Vanni and etched by Guillaume Château (Florence, Berenson Library)
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18. Plan of the Eremo di Lecceto, designed by Benedetto Giovannelli Orlandi. 1651. From A. Landucci: Sacra Leccetana Selva, Rome 1657.
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8. Design for the Crucifix Chapel in S. Martino, Siena, by Francesco Borromini. Early 1660s (Albertina, Vienna)
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9. Design for the chapel in the sacristy in S. Martino, Siena, by Francesco Borromini. Early 1660s (Albertina, Vienna)
Western art unattributed:
13. Façade of S. Martino, Siena, the lower storey built in 1613 and the upper storey in 1656-69
Western art unattributed:
14. Detail of Fig.13 showing the Landucci heraldry in the pediment surmounted by the Lecceto emblem
Western art unattributed:
15. The sacristy of S. Martino, Siena. Architect unknown. c.1664 (Photograph: Fabio and Andrea Lensini)
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19. Baptismal font, by an unknown sculptor. c.1660 (S. Agostino, Rome. Photograph: Alessandro Vasari)
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20. Epitaph of Ambrogio Landucci, bust by an unknown sculptor. c.1669 (S. Agostino, Rome)
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