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Orsanmichele, Florence
Aerial view of Florence:
Arrow indicates Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele
NORTH SIDE: Via Orsanmichele
Gable: God the Father
Niche:prob. by Donatello
Base: St. George & the Dragon / Donatello (copy & Bargello)
Figure: St. George / Donatello (1417)
Guild: Armaiuoli (Corazzai)
Starting in NW corner and then clockwise
St. George predella: St. George and the Dragon
St. George predella: St. George and the Dragon, detail
St. George predella: St. George and the Dragon, detail
Nanni di Banco,
Quattro Santi Coronati
(SS. Castor, Symphorian, Nicostratus, Simplicius),
c. 1413-16, Or San Michele, Florence.
Commissioned by the
Arte dei Maestri di Pietre e Legnami, (Stoneworkers Guild).
Quattro Santi Coronati predella: Sculptors at Work
Quattro Santi Coronati predella: Sculptors at Work, detail l
Quattro Santi Coronati predella: Sculptors at Work, detail
Gable:Christ
Niche: c.1412; undocumented
Figure: St. Phillip / Nanni di Banco (c.1410-12)
Marble, Museo
Guild: Arte dei Calzolai (shoemakers)
St. Philip predella
St. Phillip predella, detail
Niche: undocumented; w/perspective marble intarsias
attrib. to Brunelleschi
Figure: St. Peter / Ciuffagni/ Donatello (designed by Brunelleschi?)
undocumented.
Marble; Museo
Guild: Beccai
EAST SIDE
Niche: N. Lamberti (1403-6)
Figure: Bronze St. Luke / Giambologna
(1601)
replaced Lamberti's marble St. Luke
(1405-10; Museo)
Guild: Giudici e Notai
Gable: 3-headed Trinity / Donatello
Figure: Donatello , St. Louis Toulouse, 1423-5
(Museo S. Croce);
(removed from the marble niche
of Orsanmichele in 1460s)
Donatello,
St. Louis of Toulouse
View of statue in a copy of the Orsanmichele niche
Donatello,
Marble Niche of Orsanmichele
c.1422
Commissioned by the Parte Guelfa
(originally held Donatello’s
Gilded bronze stature of St. Louis of Toulouse;
removed 1460s when the
niche was sold to
the Mercanzia or merchant’s guild;
replaced with Verrocchio’s bronze
Doubting Thomas, 1465-83, pictured here)
Doubting Thomas, detail
Doubting Thomas:
Statues after cleaning
Doubting Thomas:
Statues seen from back
Doubting Thomas:
Detail of Christ’s hand
Doubting Thomas
Detail of Christ
Doubting Thomas:
Detail of Thomas
Niche: Albizzo di Piero (1414); design by Ghiberti.
Base: frieze which replaces lost mosaic by Giuliano d'Arrigo Pesello.
+ bronze eagles of the guild.
Figure: Bronze St. John Baptist / Ghiberti (1414-16) (Museo)
Guild: Calimala
SOUTH SIDE
Niche: Andrea Pisano (c. 1340)
Figure: orig. marble St. John Evangelist attrib. to circle of Orcanga (c.1370)
removed to Ospedale degli Innocenti,
replaced by bronze of same by Baccio Montelupo (1515)
Guild: Setaiuoli e orafi
Niche: Simone Talenti (1399)
Figure: Marble Madonna della Rose /
G. Tedesco, Giovanni d'Ambrogio or
N.P. Lamberti or Ferucci ??
Guild: Medici e Speziali
Gable: Soul of St. James carried to heaven
Niche: undocumented; glass & mosaic work
Base: Beheading of St. James
Figure:St. James the Greater / Niccolo di Lamberti (c.1420)
Guild: Pellicciai
St. James the Greater, predella: Beheading of St. John
St. James the Greater, predella: Beheading of St. John, detail
Gable: Blessing Christ w/ book & 2 enfoliated heads in profile
Niche: black marble w/ white foliated inlay;
Perfetto di Giovanni & Albizzo di Piero
Base: winged lion & guild stemma
Figure: Marble St. Mark / Donatello (1411-13) copy + Museo
Guild: Linaioli e Rigattieri
WEST SIDE
Base: Miracle of the Severed Hoof
Figure: Marble St. Eligius / Nanni di Banco
Museo (c.1419-21)
Guild: Arte dei Maniscalchi
St. Eligius predella: Miracle of the Severed Hoof
Niche: Andrea Pisano (c.1341)
Bronze St. Stephen / Ghiberti (1428)
Guild: Lanaiuoli
Niche: Ghiberti 1422; built by Jacopo del Corso & Giovanni di Niccolo;
Figure:Bronze St. Matthew / Ghiberti (1419-22)
Guild:Cambio; ceded by the Arte dei Fornai in 1419