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Pietrasanta
Lucca (prov.)
Toscana

Piazza Giosuè Carducci 25
(Ferdinando Palla scultore)

Quattro scultori italiani

Four Italian Sculptors

Attributed to
Ferdinando Palla
1870s

Description

Four portrait medaillons of Italian sculptors in the front façade of the sculptor's firm of Palla. These portraits are probably made by Ferdinando Palla, the founder of the firm, in the 1870s.

Pietrasanta - Quattro scultori italiani
STAGI

Stagio Stagi
(Pietrasanta 1479 - Pisa 1563)
Italian sculptor
(Enciclopedie on line).

BRVNELLESCHI

Filippo Brunelleschi
(Firenze c. 1377 - 1446)
Italian designer and a key figure in architecture. Designer of the dome of the cathedral.
(Wikipedia).

Pietrasanta - Quattro scultori italiani
MICHELANGELO

Michelangelo Buonarroti
(Caprese 1475 - Roma 1564)
Florentine sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance
(Wikipedia).

DONATELLO

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known as Donatello
(Firenze 1386 - Firenze 1466)
early Renaissance Italian sculptor
(Wikipedia).

Sculptor

Ferdinando Palla (1852-1944), Italian sculptor (Museo dei Bozzetti).

Sources & Information

Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui? - Stagi - Brunelleschi - Michelangelo - Donatello

Locatie (N 43°57'24" - E 10°13'50") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: itto193; Photograph: 16 May 2017
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