Restoration of Giovanni di Francesco Fetti’s ‘Madonna And Child,’ – Church of San Lorenzo
This polychrome wooden statue in San Lorenzo, known in Florence as La Bentornata (Welcome Back), was carved in the 1380s, just after the artist executed other artworks for Orsanmichele and for the Loggia dei Lanzi on Piazza della Signoria.
Cross No. 434 – Sala delle Maestà, Galleria degli Uffizi
This full-figure Christ, crucified with four nails and depicted according to the iconography of the Christus Patiens, which became widespread in Italy starting in the thirteenth century, is flanked by eight scenes from the Passion. The terminals, which presumably had the traditional images of the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist and other symbols, are […]
Models of Plant Structures – Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica
In the 1860s, in Breslau, now Wroclaw (Poland), Robert Brendel (ca. 1821-1898), and his son, Reinhold, started a company that produced models for the teaching of botany. They were large scale models of the flowers, fruits, and reproductive organs of various plants; their educational value was enhanced by the fact that some of the external […]
Crucifix – Bigallo Museum
This project involves a mid-13th century tempera-on-wood crucifix attributed to the Bigallo Master. It was previously restored by Leonetto Tintore in the early 1950s, but additional restoration and preservation work is now needed.
Altarpiece Depicting Three Saints – Church of San Felice in Piazza
This altarpiece depicting three saints – Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Roch, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria – dates to the 15th century and is attributed to the School of Sandro Botticelli (possibly Filippino Lippi). The altarpiece itself consists of three round-arch shaped panels and predella in a carved and gilded frame (water gilding on orange […]
‘Bacchus with Satyr’ Sculpture – Medici Collection of Antiquities, Uffizi Gallery
This sculpture is a Roman copy of a Greek original and dates to 117-138 AD. It has been in the Uffizi Gallery since 1585.