Resumen de Novità sulla scultura lignea in Valdinievole nel primo seicento: scoperta di Santi Guglielmi
The name of Santi Guglielmi has been derived from a document found in the archive of the church of San Bartolomeo in Collodi, a village in this hills 60 kms north-west of Florence. This document connects Guglielmi to a wooden crucifix from the early 17th century, kept in the same church. An extensive search in the surrounding area has indicated the connection of the artifact from Collodi with a corpus of several crucifixes preserved in the north of Tuscany. The project fostered the reconstruction of a general artistic and cultural overview of the artist, previously unheard-of. Santi Guglielmi's activity as a carver from Lucca ("intagliatore lucchese" as written in the quoted docuemt) seems to be limited to the first half of the 17 th century and hence to be identified primarily with the sculptural production related to Gianbologna and most of all to Pietro Tacca, that marked Tuscan sculpture at the time.
