Resumen de Un' aggiunta al catalogo di Agnolo Gaddi
This article offers a new attribution to Agnolo Gaddi, an important Florentine painter active in the last quarter of the fourteenth century: a panel with Saint Julian and Saint Benedict donated by the De Piro family to the Cathedral Museum of Mdina, Malta, in 1995. The painting, erroneously displayed as the work of an anonymous Florentine of about 1420, shows all the typical features of Gaddi's style. A comparison is made with the cycle of frescoes in the Castellani Chapel in Santa Croce, painted by Gaddi during the first half of the 1380s, in order to provide a more accurate dating for the painting in Malta. It is also suggested that the panel could originally have formed a part of the polyptych centred aroun the Contini Bonacossi Madonna in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
