A Donatellian ‘Madonna' deserving restoration in Terranuova Bracciolini

Francesco Caglioti
The parish church of Santa Lucia in Cicogna, a small village near Terranuova Bracciolini (Arezzo), has housed a half-figure of the 'Madonna and Child', possibly moulded in terracruda and originally intended for domestic devotion, since 1614 at the latest, as the 'icon' of one of its secondary altars. Covered over time by several layers of paint, the work will have to wait for an expert restoration before it can be attributed with any certainty. However, the particular characteristics of the invention, undocumented in other 'Madonnas' of the same genre, strongly point towards Donatello in the early 1420s. If restoration confirmed both this authorship and the use of terracruda, it would be the only surviving work by Donatello made in this material, as well as an important addition to the corpus of the artist's early 'Madonnas'.

Index

Ireneu Visa Guerrero The retablo of Saint Eulalia by the 'Master of Privileges' and 'Italianate' painting in Majorca in the early 14th century
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Luca Quattrocchi Guttuso between Sartre and De Sica: Drawings for the Film Adaptation of The Condamned of Altona
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Jacopo Tabolli A Fragment for the Repertoire of Figurative Decorations on Incised Impasto: a Ship from Montalcino
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Gabriella Cirucci The So-called 'Stele del Palestrita' in the Vatican Museums. Fragments of an Historical Itinerary
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Roberto Bartalini “A place seen in a dream”. The restoration, a recent book and some annotations on the reliquary of San Galgano, known as the Frosini reliquary
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Gigliola Gorio An ante quem for the death of Jacopino da Tradate and an insight into his workshop
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Francesco Caglioti A Donatellian 'Madonna' deserving restoration in Terranuova Bracciolini
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Gianmarco Russo Lazzaro Bastiani and his Connoisseurs
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Rosanna De Gennaro On the Terracotta of Bonarcado and its Author: Alonso Berruguete?
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Tommaso Tovaglieri “Longhi Series”. The case of Tanzio da Varallo.
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Domiziana Pelati “Per quella ammistà ch'ebbero fra di lor sempre le penne e i pennelli”. About the paintings of Camillo Gavassetti inspired by subjects from Torquato Tasso
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Felice Mastrangelo Agostino Cornacchini: an unpublished autobiography and various clarifications on his early activity in Rome
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Giovanni Agosti Pier Luigi Pizzi, on the side of Art History
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