Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Cantoria
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Cantoria
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Image View:
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Overall view in museum as reconstructed; five large consoles hold up the gallery
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Creator:
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Luca della Robbia (Italian sculptor, ca. 1399-1482)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Duomo, 9
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GPS:
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+43.772333+11.256222
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Date:
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1431-1439 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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choir loft
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble; bronze
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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328 cm (height) x 560 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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decorative arts; music; Musical instruments; children; singing; dancing
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Description:
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In 1431 the Opera del Duomo commissioned Luca della Robbia to erect a large marble Cantoria (singers' gallery) over the entrance to the north Sacristy in the Cathedral. This is the first documented work by Luca. Two years later, Donatello was commissioned to design another Cantoria to be placed over the south Sacristy where it could form a counterpart to Della Robbia's. Both were completed in 1439. Luca followed the Psalm 150 "Laudate Dominum" to represent various groups of children whose dancing, singing and playing is rendered with the grace typical of Renaissance. The artist focuses not only on the overall composition, but also on the particular emotions and gestures of the children. The cantorie were removed in 1688. Not until 1891 were the two cantorie reassembled in the museum, after having been kept dismantled at the Bargello. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-ROBBIA-MD-C-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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