Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument

Edited by

CARL BRANDON STREHLKE

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Distributed by Yale University Press New Haven and London Contents

vii Preface

ELIZABETH CROPPER

ix Foreword

CRISTINA ACI DI N I

i Introduction

CARL BRANDON STREHLKE

7 "Degno templo e tabernacol santo": Remembering and Renewing Orsanmichele

DIANE FINIELLO ZERVAS

2i Orsanmichele before and after the Niche Sculptures: Making Decisions about Art in Renaissance Florence

CARL BRANDON STREHLKE

3 5 Designing Orsanmichele: The Rediscovered Rule

MARIA TERESA BARTOLI

53 Andrea Pisano's Saint Stephen and the Genesis of Monumental Sculpture at Orsanmichele

ENRICA NERI LUSANNA

75 Giovanni di Balduccio at Orsanmichele: The Tabernacle of the Virgin before Andrea Orcagna

FRANCESCO CAGLIOTI

iii The Limestone Tracery in the Arches of the Original Grain Loggia of Orsanmichele in Florence

GERT KREYTENBERG

125 The Trecento Sculptures in the Exterior Tabernacles at Orsanmichele

ALESSANDRA GRIFFO 139 If Monuments Could Sing: Image, Song, and Civic Devotion inside Orsanmichele

BLAKE WILSON

1 69 Orsanmichele: The Birthplace of Modern Sculpture

ARTUR ROSENAUER

179 Restoration of the Statues in the Exterior Niches at Orsanmichele

ANNAMARIA GIUSTI

187 The Fat Stonecarver

MARY BERGSTEIN

197 Saint Peter of Orsanmichele

LUCIANO BELLOSI

2 i 3 A More "Modern" Ghiberti: The Saint Matthew for Orsanmichele

ELEONORA LUCIANO

243 Ghiberti's Saint Matthew and Roman Bronze Statuary: Technical Investigations during Restoration

EDILBERTO FORMIGLI

257 Predella and Prontezza: On the Expression of Donatello's Saint George

ARJAN R. DE KOOMEN

279 Scientific Investigations of the Bronze and Marble Statues of Orsanmichele

MAURO MATTEINI

289 Words on an Image: Francesco da Sangallo's Sant'Anna Metterza for Orsanmichele

COLIN EISLER WITH THE COLLABORATION OF ABBEY KORNFELD

AND ALISON REBECCA W. STRAUBER

301 The Orsanmichele Project

GIORGIO BONSANTI

315 Orsanmichele: Some Recent Flistory

FRANCESCA NANNELLI

339 Scientific Investigations on Brownish Alterations on the Marble Statues at Orsanmichele

DANIELA PINNA

347 Barricading Orsanmichele: Uses and Abuses in the Conservation History of a Florentine Monument

DANIELA LAMBERINI

367 Orsanmichele: An Afterword

CAROLINE ELAM

377 Contributors

381 Index