Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Five Relief Panels from an Altar Screen
Lot Closed
January 30, 07:04 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Italian, Genoa, first quarter 14th century
Five Relief Panels from an Altar Screen
marble, with modern steel stands
each 13 1/2 by 13 1/2 in.; 34 by 34cm.
These five square panels are part of a group that likely formed a choir screen or high altar. They are carved in deep relief and decorated with a variety of figurative, foliate, and floral motifs, including a bull, a rose ornament framed by vine tendrils, leaves and grapes, and a foliate pattern encased in an acanthus leaf frame. Fourteen other panels from the same group are in the Museo Bardini, Florence, which feature variations of the same motifs. The winged bull carved on one of the present panels is a symbol of the Evangelist Luke and would have been part of a series of four panels depicting the symbols of the Evangelists, which would have included the reliefs depicting the lion of Saint Mark and the eagle of Saint John that remain in the Bardini collection. The Museo Bardini reliefs have been compared to Genoese sculpture of the first quarter of the fourteenth century (op. cit. Faedo, 1986).
RELATED LITERATURE:
E. Neri Lusanna Lucia Fadeo et al., Il Museo Bardini a Firenze, vol 2, Milan, 1986, pp 219-20, pls. 120-33;
V. Niemeyer Chini, Stefano Bardini e Wilhelm Bode, mercanti e connoisseurs fra Ottocento e Novecento, Florence, 2009, pp 196 and 201