This contribution proposes a new attribution in favour of Agnolo Gaddi, an important Florentine master that was active in the last quarter of the XIV century. Here we discuss a panel portraying the ‘Saint Julian and Saint Benedict’, donated by the De Piro family to the Cathedral Museum of Mdina, Malta, in 1995. The painting, wrongly exhibited as the work of an anonymous Florentine author dated around 1420, shows all the typical features of Gaddi’s style. A comparison is established with the cycle of frescoes of the Castellani chapel in Santa Croce, painted by Gaddi in the first half of the ninth decade of the XIV century, in order to give a specific chronological ambience to the Maltese painting. Furthermore, we propose that the panel could originally be a part of the polytptych of the ‘Madonna’ Contini, held at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.'
G. A. Calogero (2013). Un’aggiunta al catalogo di Agnolo Gaddi. PARAGONE. ARTE, 108, 34-39.
Un’aggiunta al catalogo di Agnolo Gaddi
CALOGERO, GIACOMO ALBERTO
2013
Abstract
This contribution proposes a new attribution in favour of Agnolo Gaddi, an important Florentine master that was active in the last quarter of the XIV century. Here we discuss a panel portraying the ‘Saint Julian and Saint Benedict’, donated by the De Piro family to the Cathedral Museum of Mdina, Malta, in 1995. The painting, wrongly exhibited as the work of an anonymous Florentine author dated around 1420, shows all the typical features of Gaddi’s style. A comparison is established with the cycle of frescoes of the Castellani chapel in Santa Croce, painted by Gaddi in the first half of the ninth decade of the XIV century, in order to give a specific chronological ambience to the Maltese painting. Furthermore, we propose that the panel could originally be a part of the polytptych of the ‘Madonna’ Contini, held at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.'I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
