Aggiunte all'attività ritrattistica dello scultore fiorentino Gregorio di Lorenzo

• Autores: Alfredo Bellandi
• Localización: Commentari d'arte: rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, Vol. 19, Nº. 54-55, 2013, págs. 56-61
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The portraiture of Gregorio di Lorenzo (Florence c.1436-Forlì c.1504) -the brilliant pupil of Desiderio da Settignano, who was formerly called the Master of the Marble Madonnas, a name coined by Bode at the end of the 19th century- with which we are familiar through his likenesses in profile of Ercole I d'Este in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and of Ferdinand I of Naples in a private collection, is presently the focus of critical reflection following the attribution to him of a bust of Pietro Talani (1493-1497) in the National Gallery of Art in Washington and another of Lorenzo Soderini (1493-1495) in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. Both works were executed by the sculptor after returning to Florence after a long period in Hungary (1475-1490) at the court of Matthias Corvinus.

    The author proposes new and significant additions to the Florentine sculptor's portrait catalogue, including the clay bust of a cross-eyed man, possibly identifiable as Giovanni Frescobaldi, nicknamed "Il Guercio" (the squinter) and a marble relief with a portrait in profile of a Florentine patrician, both executed towards 1470, and owned privately.