Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Model of Medieval Florence Duomo Facade
Image View:
Key to the placement of the sculptures and fragments on the reconstructed lower facade
Creator:
Franco Gizdulich (Italian model maker, 1939-2016)
Location:
repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza del Duomo, 9
GPS:
43.772333 11.256222
Date:
1999-2000 (creation); original, 1296- ca. 1412 (other)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Gothic (Medieval); Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
façade
Work Type 2:
model (representation)
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Material:
wood and resin
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); models (representations); model making; scale models
Description:
As part of the construction of the new museum, Gizdulich was asked to make a scale model of the original Medieval facade, which had been dismantled in 1587. This model, in wood, was then the guide to recreating the lower facade in full scale (using resin and plaster instead of wood) for the Great Hall of the museum. This allows for the placement of over 40 of the original statues, and 60 architectural fragments in their original context, to the extent that is known. The basis for this work was a drawing by Bernardino Poccetti, 1587, before the destruction. (Source: Verdon, Timothy; The New Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 18, No. 2)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
1A2-I-F-D-MFM-A08
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Model of Medieval Florence Duomo Facade