Scotti COA 1490 - 1499

Noble coat of arms between female figures
RELIEF, 1490 - 1499
The angular high relief is made up of two female figures with conucopias, almost in the round, which flank the coat of arms of the Scotti family, modeled like a horse's head

OBJECT
relief
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
marble/sculpture
CULTURAL FIELD
Lombardy area
LOCATION
Morigi boys' college
ADDRESS
Via Taverna 37, Piacenza (PC)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
The two female figures present the characteristics of 15th century Lombard sculpture, preserving the Gothic imprint in the translation of the Renaissance stylistic modules into a graceful stylizing reduction. They are blocked volumes crossed on the surface by the continuous undulating motions of the drapery, rendered as if it were ductile material that flows in small pleats just detached from the bodies wrapped in the robes. In these decorative figures, movement and expression are totally absent, replaced by a rigid formal composure. They present a notable resemblance (to the point of suggesting artisanal copies and iconographic reworkings with the addition of cornucopias, in particular the left figure) with the female sculpture placed outside the northern apse of the Milan Cathedral, perhaps identified with Santa Caterina, in which Nebbia recognizes some characteristics of Amadeo. The most evident difference can be seen in the drapery, which in the Duomo work is rendered in multifaceted and angular folds, while here it is looser and freer. Berzolla sees analogies in the "strongly chiaroscuro heads" with the statues of Amadeo in the Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo, while "the drapery, adhering to the body like wet cloth, brings to mind the works of Mantegazza", which, in my opinion, is much more hard and sharp
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
LEGAL CONDITION
property Non-territorial public body
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800148569
COMPETENT BODY FOR PROTECTION
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza