Mariano d'Agnolo Romanelli and the Reliquary of Pope Mark: the return of enamelling ‘a figure risparmiate' in the late Trecento

Alessandro Bagnoli
For the bust in gilded copper of Pope Mark, dated 1381 and belonging to the abbey of Abbadia San Salvatore, the attribution to the Sienese sculptor and goldworker Mariano d'Agnolo Romanelli has been made, on the basis of stylistic analysis and particularly comparison with the marble sculptures of the Cappella di Piazza del Campo in Siena (1376-1380) and the archaic-style painted wooden bust of 'Saint Ursula' (San Gimignano, Museo Civico). This has revealed that the Sienese artist, who in his marble and wooden figures follows the teachings of the forefathers of the Gothic style Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, reproposes the technique favoured by the great Sienese goldworkers of the early Trecento also in the choice of champlevé enamels following the Tuscan version of this technique (that is, with figures lacking glass paste).

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Alessandro Bagnoli Mariano d'Agnolo Romanelli and the Reliquary of Pope Mark: the return of enamelling 'a figure risparmiate' in the late Trecento
read abstract » pag. 3-11
Elisabetta Cioni For Matteo di Mino di Pagliaio. New considerations on the Sienese goldsmith's art in the second half of the Trecento
read abstract » pag. 12-46
Maria Falcone On the Tomb monument of Margaret of Brabant, the Tomb of Doge Tommaso Campofregoso and other Ligurian works of the Quattrocento
read abstract » pag. 47-89
Gianluca Amato The 'Dead Christ' by Francesco di Giorgio at Santa Maria dei Servi in Siena
read abstract » pag. 90-141
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani For a catalogue of drawings by Agostino Melissi at the Uffizi
read abstract » pag. 142-173
Gianmarco Russo Longhi, reader of Vasari
read abstract » pag. 174-199
Anna Santucci A 'Pseudo-Vitellius' in the Uffizi Gallery (and other 'Pseudo-Vitellius' busts in Florence between the 16th and the 19th century)
read abstract » pp. 200-217
Jörg Deterling An 'Apollo' relief from the Giustiniani collection
read abstract » pag. 218-220
Anna Anguissola Observations on the catalogue of the Dresden sculptures: the case of the “four ancient small young fauns”
read abstract » pag. 221-225
Valentina Balzarotti Pellegrino Tibaldi in the church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia
read abstract » pag. 226-232
Giovanni Renzi Two works by Camillo Procaccini in Tuscany and an episode in the history of collectionism
read abstract » pag. 233-251
Luca Fiorentino Cornelis de Bie and Gian Lorenzo Bernini: observations regarding the critical fortune of Bernini in the Seicento
read abstract » pag. 252-261
Giovanni Agosti e Jacopo Stoppa Controversy and peace on the “Grechetto”
read abstract » pag. 262-273
Giovanni Agosti For Enzo Mengaldo, between two languages
read abstract » pag. 274-282