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61. tough find! When I first saw it, I thought of LUCA della Robbia, Giovanni's great uncle...

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 03:13 AM

Jan 2013

easy enough because of the glazed terra cotta. But not as refined and frankly not nearly as well done as Luca's work.

The "labor history" of this is very interesting and I have to thank Jill Burke for her scholarship on this from her excellent essay pushing back on the meme that only the great families of Florence were responsible for the wonderful art of Florence in the early to mid Italian Renaissance. This appears in her piece in "Viewing Renaissance Art" a Yale University Press book and her essay is entitled "Florence Art and the Public Good." She asserts that the guilds and other labor organizations of the day were ardent supporters of the art of the era and responsible for much of its greatness.

This work was sponsored about one of the poorest of labor groups in the city, the wool workers. It demarcated their "territory" where they lived and also served as a kind of supplication to the Virgin and the saints Barbara and Caterina to give them aid in the time of pestilence (black death).

I'd be interested in knowing the source you had, since I haven't run across too many references to this particular tabernacle. Please share it since I think it would be a great read and I love anything about that era in Florence.

Note the homage to the doors of the Baptistery, with the popping out heads surrounding the scene?

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