Resumen de Niccolò Baroncelli tra Firenze, Padova e Ferrara: due rilievi in terracotta ed altre aggiunte
Niccolò Baroncelli in Florence, Padua and Ferrara: two terracotta reliefs and other additions.
A reconstruction of the events of Niccolò Baroncelli's (Florence 1409-Ferrara 1453) long stay in Padua (1434-1443) has long been awaited. In spite of the many references in the archives discovered in the early part of the 20th century, which revealed that the artist was a prolific sculptor of works in clay and stone, eveidence of his output in Padua amounts to just a few pieces: the terracotta relief depicting the Miracle of Saint Eligius, now in the Museo Civico, and the decoration of the south portal of the Chiesa degli Eremitani. These works are closely linked in culture and style to the two clay tablets discussed here, a Coronation of the Virgin surrounded by musician angels with the date of execution engraved on it (1434) and a Madonna and Child with musician angels. These two new acquisitions allow us to define the role of the Florentine sculptor within Donatello's workshop between 1419 and 1432, and above all to confirm Baroncello's authorship of other works that have until now been of uncertain attribution, with regard to bot the period in Padua and his subsequer time in Ferrara after 1443 when the name of Baroncello's brother-in-law, Domenico di Paris, begins to appear alongside his own name.
