Two sculptures by Agnolo di Ventura at the Louvre and the Tomb of Cardinal Matteo Orsini in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome

Bruna Bianco
Two sculptures in the Musée du Louvre – portraying Saint Catherine of Alexandria presenting a kneeling clergyman to a Madonna and Child, following an iconographic motif widely used in Italian tomb sculpture – are linked together and attributed to the Sienese sculptor Agnolo di Ventura. Strong evidence suggests that these two pieces were part of the Tomb of Cardinal Matteo Orsini († 1340), whose surviving gisant is today embedded in the vestibule wall to the left of the apse in the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. Despite considerable losses, the discovery of the donor effigy corroborates the hypothesis that the original tomb was a canopied wall monument, a design typical of curial tombs.

Index

Santina Novelli The 'Lady's Room': painting genre and commissioning of a profane wall decoration in Florence in the second half of the 14th century
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Mattia Barana The origin of the Oxford University Galleries and the vie devant soi of William T.H. Fox Strangways bequest
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Bruna Bianco Two sculptures by Agnolo di Ventura at the Louvre and the Tomb of Cardinal Matteo Orsini in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome
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Vera Cutolo Marble heads for Pius II: an addition to the catalogue of Paolo Romano
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Roberto Bartalini A new canvas by Sodoma from the ceiling of Palazzo Chigi in Siena
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Teresa Callaioli Pietro Torrigiani's 'Christ' in Westminster Abbey: function and religious role in the space of the English royal church
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Bruno Carabellese Francesco Albani, Guido Reni, Guercino: Fabio Chigi and the “manners” of painting
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Gioele Scordella A forgotten canvas by Francesco De Mura in Pisa and its commissioning
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