Un 'San Giovannino' in terracotta di Andrea Sansovino

• Autores: Gianluca Amato
• Localización: Prospettiva: rivista di storia dell'arte antica e moderna, ISSN 0394-0802, Nº. 163-164, 2016, págs. 124-143
• Idioma: italiano
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  • A 'Young Saint John the Baptist' in terracotta by Andrea Sansovino.

    The purpose of the paper is to add a new terracotta to Andrea Sansovino's catalogue. The sculpture, whose location is unknown, represents the 'Young Saint John the Baptist'. Stylistic analysis allows us to compare the sculpture with other works that Sansovino carved during his stay in Rome, like the tomb monument for Ascanio Maria Sforza (1505-1509) in the basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, or the famous sculptural group of the 'Virgin and Child with Saint Anne' (1511-1512) made for the altar of the Apostolic Protonotary Johann Göritz in the basilica of Sant'Agostino. The quality of this little terracotta is high, and the rendering of the anatomy impressive: these features allow us to include the little Baptist in the greatest Florentine Renaissance tradition of 'puttos'. This tradition is associated with Benedetto da Maiano, the great artist who played an imoprtant role in Andrea Sansovino and Michelangelo's education. In this paper we also ascribe a fragment of a 'Putto' to Benedetto da Maiano. At the beginning of the 20th century the work was recorded in the collection of Edouard Aynard, a rich French banker and art patron. Continuing with the iconography of the Young Saint John the Baptist, the paper identifies two other full-length examples: a marble sculpture by Gregorio di Lorenzo that was in the Lazzaroni collection (Paris), and a terracotta one -considered to be an original piece by Benedetto da Maiano- situated in the Chiostro dello Scalzo in Florence.