Two of a Kind: Shining New Light on Bronze Spiritelli Attributed to Donatello
| Autor: | David Bourgarit, Manon Castelle, Yannick Vandenberghe, Marc Bormand |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Dynamiques patrimoniales et culturelles (DYPAC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), EUR-17-EURE-0021, The authors wish to thank the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine [grant number EUR-17-EURE-0021] for funding the PhD project in the frame of which this work was carried out. We wish to express our gratitude to Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, curator of the Jacquemart-Andr? Museum, who has permitted this study of the two Donatello Spiritelli. We gratefully acknowledge Marie-Emmanuelle Meyohas, conservator of metal objects, for her restoration work on the statues, revealing their internal surfaces. We warmly thank our colleagues at the C2RMF for helping at different stages of this work: Elsa Lambert, Jean Marsac, Anne Maigret, Yvan Coquinot, Benoit Mille, Dominique Robcis, Laurent Pichon, Brice Moignard, Quentin Lemasson, and Juliette Langlois. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful remarks. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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X ray radiography
060102 archaeology media_common.quotation_subject ICP-AES 010401 analytical chemistry Art history X- ray radiography 06 humanities and the arts Conservation Art engineering.material Italian Renaissance 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences engineering PIXE [CHIM]Chemical Sciences 0601 history and archaeology technical study Bronze bronze statues media_common |
| Zdroj: | Studies in Conservation Studies in Conservation, Maney Publishing, 2020, 65 (4), pp.200-211. ⟨10.1080/00393630.2019.1655261⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0039-3630 |
| Popis: | International audience; Two Spiritelli attributed to Donatello have been extensively studied from a technical point of view, including X-radiography, alloy analysis, characterization of the core, and visual observations on the interior and exterior of the statues. The results of this technical study reveal how the two statues were cast and document the artist’s technical choices. These new insights offer additional information to address questions regarding their attribution, production context, and conservation history. First, the technical study confirmed that the statues were made by the same workshop and argues against the prior proposal of different attributions for the two figures. Second, the results strongly suggest that the statues have never been separated since they were taken off Luca Della Robbia’s Cantoria. Finally, study of the two Spiritelli offers further evidence of the heterogeneity and ingeniousness of Donatellos bronze artistic production, and contributes to the ongoing debate whether the artist himself was involved in the technical aspects of his sculpture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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