Il polottico di Sassetta per San Francesco a Sansepolcro perlustrato

• Autores: Andrea G. De Marchi
• Localización: Prospettiva: rivista di storia dell'arte antica e moderna, ISSN 0394-0802, Nº. 139-140, 2010, págs. 115-130
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The publication on Sassetta’s polyptych for the high altar of St. Francis at Sansepolcro is the result of a team effort coordinated by Machtelt Israëls and promoted by Villa I Tatti. It presents an exemplary convergence of different methods: from technical analysis for the reassembly of parts of the altarpiece , scattered all over the world, to the iconographic program, to the context of the church and its furnishings, to the relationship between the shape of this work, painted in both sides, and its function. On this matter, is crucial the location of the friars’ choir in the main chapel, and not at the center of the nave, as was usual before the Counter-Reformation in accordance with the use of the Franciscan province of Umbria. The prototype was a lot polyptych by Spinello Aretino for St. Francis at Città di Castello. The altarpiece was commissioned from Antonio da Anghiari, master of Piero della Francesca, and the cancellation of this contract in favour of Sassetta, in 1437, caused a quarrel between the Franciscans and Antonio, only remedied the following year. This explain the fact, otherwise mysterious, that the Senese painter waas required to rebuild the carpentry, modeled on the existing one.