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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Cantoria
Image View:
Copy of first top relief panel (100 x 94 cm) displayed at eye level; boy trumpet players with girls dancing
Creator:
Luca della Robbia (Italian sculptor, ca. 1399-1482)
Location:
repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza del Duomo, 9
GPS:
43.772333 11.256222
Date:
1431-1439 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
choir loft
Work Type 2:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble; bronze
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Measurements:
328 cm (height) x 560 cm (width)
Subjects:
decorative arts; music; Musical instruments; children; singing; dancing
Description:
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/in dex.html)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-ROBBIA-MD-C-A10
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Cantoria