St. Miniato
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Nanni di Bartolo, attributed to
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St. Miniato
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Abstract
This richly polychromed and gilded image half-length sculpture of San Miniato (in San Miniato al Monte, Florence) was long thought to be made of terracotta and was published as such, but it is in fact a painted wood sculpture. This is an example of the difficulty in identifying the underlying sculptural material in well-preserved fully polychromed sculptures, and the ways in which artists used different media in parallel ways. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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San Miniato al Monte, Florence
Citation
Alfredo Bellandi, ed., ""Fece di scoltura di legname e colorì"": Scultura del quattrocento in legno dipinto a Firenze (Florence: Giunti, 2016), 43, 67.