Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Pulpit, Santa Maria Novella
Image View:
Overall view with canopy
Creator:
Andrea di Lazzaro Cavalcanti (Italian sculptor, 1412-1462); Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian designer, 1377-1446)
Location:
repository: Santa Maria Novella (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 18
GPS:
43.7746 11.2493
Date:
1443-1452 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
pulpit
Work Type 2:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble; gold leaf
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Subjects:
New Testament; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; liturgy
Description:
He was the son of Lazzaro Cavalcanti but was adopted at the age of seven by Filippo Brunelleschi. He is also known as Buggiano after his birthplace. In 1443 Cavalcanti had begun to carve a circular marble pulpit for the church of S Maria Novella, Florence, based on a model by Brunelleschi and financed by the monk Andrea Rucellai. The pulpit, with its richly carved mouldings, betrays an element of ingenuity and repetition in the four panels depicting scenes of the Life of the Virgin; the work was completed in 1452, after much delay, and was assembled and evaluated by Antonio Rossellino and Desiderio da Settignano. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-MAIANO-SMN-P-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Pulpit, Santa Maria Novella