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The article in two parts studies the terracotta Madonna with Child preserved at the Museum of Budapest and commonly attributed to Ghiberti or his atelier. The analysis focuses on a few details (the drapery, the Virgin’s face, the proportion, the…

Catalogue file of a Madonna stucco owned by the Arciconfraternita della Misericordia of Florence. The author review all the theories about the mass production of this kind of relief in Quattrocento Florentine art; listing all the similar items known…

The article lists eight works of art part of the Italian Renaissance sculpture collection of the Royal Ontario Museum; reporting on their possible attributions. Among them, there are two Madonna stuccoes similar to the ones that are usually…

Studying four Madonna with Child preserved in Venice, the author reviews/ retraces their various attributions, highlighting the discrepancies in Bode’s and Krautheimer’s theory (claiming that the common prototype was made by Ghiberti) as well as in…

Studying Jacopo della Quercia’s terracotta production, the author suggests that the great amount of busts representing the Madonna with the Child that are usually ascribed to Ghiberti’s workshop did not have a Ghiberti’s model as a prototype, but…

After comparing the conventional Madonna relief attributed to Ghiberti’s studio and the Caritas made by Bartolommeo Buon in 1427 for one of the capitals at the Ca d’oro in Venice, the author claims they share the same prototype, a Ghiberti’s relief…

The article lists the early Quattrocento Florentine sculptures that could be found at the Detroit museum (Heil was then the curator of the european section) and in a few private collections in the city, most notably Edsel B. Ford’s and Valentiner’s…

The Madonna in a tabernacle relief at the Museo del Bargello and the Madonna with angels relief at the South Kensigton Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum) are ascribed to Ghiberti’s circle after stylistic analysis.

Restoration report about the Madonna stucco preserved in Villa la Quiete (Università degli Studi di Firenze); completed in 2019. Before then the stucco had been heavily repainted and underwent many alterations.

Brief study about the Madonna stucco preserved in Villa la Quiete (Università degli Studi di Firenze) attempting to retraces the history of the work of art. In the same volume there is the restoration report.