Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Italian, Genoa, first quarter 14th century

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.

Bardini Collection, Florence, circa 1900;
Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK;
From whom acquired, 2010
A. Fletcher, Scultura III: Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, Paul Holberton Publishing, p. 10 (illus.)
New York, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art., Scultura III, October 21-31, 2010

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