Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Italian Gothic Sculpture, London, 1972, pp. 188-189, fig. 33
The present terracotta is after a section of the series of reliefs depicting episodes of the Creation, from the Book of Genesis, that decorate the northwestern pilaster of the faade of Orvieto Cathedral (Pope-Hennessy, op.cit., pilaster 'A'). These are by general consensus of scholarly opinion attributable to Lorenzo Maitani, who was capomaestro for building and decorating the facade from 1310 until 1330.
J. Pope-Hennessy, Italian Gothic Sculpture, London, 1972, pp. 188-189, fig. 33
The present terracotta is after a section of the series of reliefs depicting episodes of the Creation, from the Book of Genesis, that decorate the northwestern pilaster of the faade of Orvieto Cathedral (Pope-Hennessy, op.cit., pilaster 'A'). These are by general consensus of scholarly opinion attributable to Lorenzo Maitani, who was capomaestro for building and decorating the facade from 1310 until 1330.