Per l'arca dei Santi Proto, Giacinto e Nemesio di Lorenzo Ghiberti: l'epigrafe ritrovata

• Autores: Divo Savelli
• Localización: Prospettiva: rivista di storia dell'arte antica e moderna, ISSN 0394-0802, Nº. 146, 2012, págs. 22-25
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The present article illustrates the discovery, made by the author in 2011, of the two marble pieces that Loreno Ghiberti made in 1428 to bear part of the epigraphs accompanying the decoration of the bronze chest, or urn, of the martyred saints Protus, Hyacinth and Nemesius. The chest was commissioned to Ghiberti by Cosimo and Lorenzo di Giovanni de'Medici for the church of the Camaldolensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. When the monument was dismantled at the end of the 16th century, the two pieces were reused, again in Santa Maria degli Angeli, for new inscriptions on the opposite sides to those carved by Ghiberti, and they were thus concealed definitively from the eyes of the public. While one of Ghiberti's inscriptions has survived almost intact in its hidden positions, the other must have been cancelled at the time of reusing the marble on which it was written. The publication of the discovery allows the author to add certain considerations on the original cult function of the so-called 'Women's Oratory' of Santa Maria degli Angeli, which housed the rear side of the monument to the three martyrs (whereas the front face gave onto the church of the Camaldolese fathers). The Oratory was in fact the second stage of a Marian pilgrimage that led the devoted from the Santissima Annunziata of Florence towards Loreto; this is explained mainly by the relic of Saint Joseph's staff, preserved in the sacristy of Santa Maria degli Angeli.