Un rilievo di Giovanni Caccini per Santa Maria degli Angeli di Firenze

• Autores: Riccardo Spinelli
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 125, 2016, págs. 25-31
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The reappearance in a private collection of a relief with two winged figures flanking a coat of arms, dated 1586 and which can be associated with the Camaldolese convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, allows for a tentative identification with the piece described in 1862 by an employee of the then Soprintendenza, Giuseppe Rondoni. He noted that the second cloister of the complex, the so-called "Chiostro dell'Ammannato", contained a work with these elements, although he interpreted the incised date as 1580, perhaps because of the likely placement of the slab over a door, which would have led to the misreading of the fourth figure. During the 1580s, through the patronage of Don Silvano Razzi, Santa Maria degli Angeli was the setting for a number of works by Giovanni Caccini, the author of most of the sculpted decoration (above all busts), with forms and handling of the material not unlike the features found in the present relief; this is here attributed to Caccini, also because of its stylistic resemblance to other autograph works by the master produced in the same period.