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Title
Nativity
Date
1530 ca.
Artist
Artist notes
1491 ca. – post 1539
Medium
Painted terracotta with traces of gold and silver
Dimensions
Overall with base: 126×220,5×128 cm
Madonna: 122×66×85 cm
Saint Joseph: 128×58×105 cm
Child: 60,5×33×20 cm
Madonna: 122×66×85 cm
Saint Joseph: 128×58×105 cm
Child: 60,5×33×20 cm
Origin
Church of Santa Maria del Ponte, Tione degli Abruzzi (L’Aquila)
Collection
Location
Position
Inventory
OPA 98, 99, 100
Description
Historically attributed to Saturnino Gatti, recent studies suggest that the author of this terracotta Nativity is actually Giovanni Antonio da Lucoli, an Abruzzese artist nfluenced by Verrocchio. The figures of the Madonna and Saint Joseph, reassembled after the 2009 earthquake that had shattered them, have been secured with a sophisticated internal steel structure developed by the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro.
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