Bust of Cione di Lapo Pollini
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Unknown Florentine sculptor
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Cione di Lapo Pollini , Bust
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Abstract
This painted terracotta bust was made by an unknown Florentine artist and depicts Cione di Lapo Pollini, founder of the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala in 1313. The sculpture is likely not an accurate representation of the man, as it was made in the sixteenth century, nearly two centuries after his death. There has been some confusion among scholars over the bust's dating and original location. While documents suggest the bust was made for the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala and later moved to the Ospedale degli Innocenti in the 1530s, stylistic features of the bust, including its curved bottom edge, suggest that it was made in the second half of the sixteenth century, when this style was being popularized by followers of the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli. Regardless of the bust's location, it would have been viewed only from the front, possibly in a niche, as the back is unfinished and hollow. Today, the bust is displayed in the Museo degli Innocenti in Florenceand stands as one of the few polychrome busts produced in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Museo degli Innocenti, Florence; Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence; Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, Florence
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Stefano Filipponi, Eleonora Mazzocchi, and Ludovica Sebregondi, eds., Il mercante, l'ospedale, i fanciulli: La donazione di Francesco Datini, Santa Maria Nuova e la fondazione degli Innocenti, exh. cat. (Firenze: Nardini, 2010), p. 48-53; Stefano Filipponi, Eleonora Mazzocchi, and Ludovica Sebregondi, The Museo degli Innocenti (Florence: La Mandragora s.r.l., 2016), 22.