Margherita di Brabante, regina dei romani, sollevata al cielo da due angeli (198058)

Giovanni Pisano "Margaret of Brabant"

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Titolo dell'opera:

Margherita di Brabante, regina dei romani, sollevata al cielo da due angeli

Acquisizione:

Duchessa di Galliera Genova - legato

Autore:

Pisano, Giovanni

Epoca:

Inventario:

PB 2100

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 73,5; Larghezza: 64; Profondità: 30,5; Varie: Misure angelo destro: 68.3 x 24.5 x 33.5 cm (h x L x P). Misure angelo sinistro: 78 x 29.7 x 33.8 cm (h x L x P).

Tecnica:

marmo bianco apuano scolpito

Ultimi prestiti:

Kaiser Karl IV. 1316-2016 - Praga, National Gallery, Waldstein Riding School - 15/05—25/09 2016

Descrizione:

The elevatio animae group of Margaret of Brabant is one of the most famous medieval sculptures. It was commissioned from Giovanni Pisano, the most important sculptor of the time, by Emperor Henry VII as a tribute to his beloved wife Margaret of Brabant who died in Genoa at the age of 36 on the night of 13 December 1311. The funeral monument was erected in the church of San Francesco di Castelletto and placed in the apsis. Later, at the end of the 16th century (before 1602), it was dismembered and reused in the chapel of San Francesco in the same church. With the demolition of the sacred building in the early 19th century, the group was transferred by the Brignole Sale family to Villa Duchessa di Galliera in Voltri, where it remained until the 1870s, when it was rediscovered by Santo Varni.