Review article
https://doi.org/10.17018/portal.2015.5
The Madonna of the Candelabra from the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka
Marta Budicin
orcid.org/0000-0002-5844-0960
; Croatian Conservation Institute, Section for Movable Heritage Research and Documentation, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The composition of the Madonna of the Candelabra, whose lost marble prototype is dated around 1460, is attributed to one of the major protagonists of the Early Florentine Renaissance, Antonio Rossellino (1427–1479). Today, reliefs with this depiction executed in stone, terracotta, stucco, gypsum, cartapesta, wood and bronze can be found in many museums and galleries around the world, in the neighboring Italy and Slovenia, and along the East Adriatic coast. The subject of this research is the polychromed and gilded stucco relief of the Madonna of the Candelabra from the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka, whose formal characteristics indicate it to be a direct cast of the relief by Antonio Rossellino or one of its first and finest replicas. The research includes other reliefs depicting the Madonna of the Candelabra from the East Adriatic, focusing especially on the reliefs restored at the Croatian Conservation Institute and the treatments performed.
Keywords
Florence; Early Renaissance; Antonio Rossellino; sculpture; relief; Virgin and Child; Madonna of the Candelabra; stucco; terracotta; cartapesta; Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral; Rijeka
Hrčak ID:
149922
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Publication date:
21.12.2015.
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