Resumen de Una nota per Giovanni di Balduccio a Milano
The article presents a hitherto unpublished fourteenth-century relief sculpture of the head of a "Prophet" set within an elaborate Gothic quatrefoil, carved in pink marble from the Lombard lake region. The author attributes it to the Milanese period of the Tuscan artist Giovanni di Balduccio, and suggests that the work, which has come down to us as a fragment, originally formed part of a grand architectural project that served as a model for the Campionese master Giacomo Fusina in the design of the overdoors leading to the sacristies of Milan Cathedral, executed in the 1390s. The appearance of the relief would reflect some traumatic demolition, and given the vicissitudes of the Visconti capital, one cannot help considering as association with the long and complex construction of the new Duomo, achieved by demolishing the two pre-existing basilicas of Santa Maria Maggiore and Santa Tecla
