An intense and expressive image of 'Mary Magdalene', today in the deposits of the Fondazione Federico Cerruti per l'Arte (Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin), may be included in the illustrious iconographical tradition of the Florentine 'Mary Magdalenes' of the Quattrocento. The authorship and provenance of this considerable sculpture, modelled in terracotta and painted, were unknown. The present study retraces the complex sequence of events relating to the work, associating it on stylistic grounds with the later activity of the Florentine sculptor Benedetto da Maiano (Maiano 1441 – Florence 1497), and recomposing the vicissitudes relating to its provenance, now identifiable thanks to documents in the complex of Santa Elisabetta “delle Convertite” in Florence, whose coenobium was used as a shelter for repentant prostitutes up until the early 19th century.
The article also proposes to assign another famous work to the catalogue of terracottas by Benedetto da Maiano, the bust of 'Saint Antonino Pierozzi' today in the right transept of the basilica of Santa Maria Novella, one of the most important portraits of the archbishop of Florence whose authorship has for long remained uncertain.
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Francesco Aceto
Between Giotto and Simone Martini. A rare painted portal with 'Stories of the Passion' in Naples cathedral and its topographical and liturgical context
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read abstract » pp. 13-22
Victor M. Schmidt
A proposal for Ambrogio Lorenzetti's panel paintings from the church of San Procolo in Florence
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read abstract » pp. 23-30
Keith Christiansen
The architecture in a Bohemian panel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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read abstract » pp. 31-35
Gabriele Fattorini
On the 'Annunciation' of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum by Jacopo della Quercia
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read abstract » pp. 36-46
Francesco Caglioti
Desiderio da Settignano the portraitist: “una testa del Chardinale di Portoghallo”, or the 'Saint Lawrence' in the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence
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read abstract » pp. 47-59
Alessandro Angelini
Francesco di Giorgio in Urbino and the iconography of the 'Flagellation'
read abstract » pp. 60-68
read abstract » pp. 60-68
Gianluca Amato
Benedetto da Maiano: two proposals for the catalogue of terracottas
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read abstract » pp. 69-77
Antonio Mazzotta
Evidence pointing to the identity of the 'Master of the Sforza Altarpiece'
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read abstract » pp. 78-85
Roberto Bartalini
Raphael and Sodoma in the Stanza della Segnatura. New findings
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read abstract » pp. 86-95
Rosanna De Gennaro
About the little-known opisthographic marble altarpiece of the abbey of Montevergine
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read abstract » pp. 122-131
Elisabetta Cioni
Notes on the 17th-century reliquary of the right arm of Saint John the Baptist of Siena cathedral
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Gennaro Toscano
The popularity of Dante in France in the early 19th century. Aubin-Louis Millin and ms. XIII.C.4 of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples
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read abstract » pp. 148-159
Laura Cavazzini
Alceo Dossena and the forgery of Gothic sculpture between Lombardy and Tuscany
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read abstract » pp. 168-176
Luca Quattrocchi
Italian art for National Socialism. Antonio Maraini and the Ausstellung Italienischer Kunst von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart exhibition in Berlin in 1937
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read abstract » pp. 177-186
Marco M. Mascolo
Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Renaissance sculpture and the problems of connoisseurship
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read abstract » pp. 187-194