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Tabernacle with Angels Mino da Fiesole Giuseppe Lelli (cast maker)

Artist

Mino da Fiesole Papiano 1429 – 1484 Florence

Giuseppe Lelli (cast maker) Firenze

Date 1450–1475 (original), 1907 (cast)
Object type plaster cast
Medium, technique plaster cast
Dimensions

267 × 111 × 22 cm

Inventory number Rg.207
Collection Sculptures
On view Star Fortress (Komárom), The Della Robbia Workshop in Florence, Gallery XIV

Mino da Fiesole made the marble tabernacle in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. According to a record from 1677, the tabernacle had been placed in a Benedictine convent in Florence (Santissima Annunziata alle Murate e Santa Caterina). It was moved to its present location in the Basilica di Santa Croce in 1815. Set within an architectural frame ending in a lunette, the wall tabernacle is decorated with four angels adoring the Holy Sacrament. The Latin transcription also points to the Eucharistic sacrament and the function of the tabernacle: HIC EST PANIS VIVVS Q DECELO DESCENDIT (Here is the Living Bread which descends from Heaven) O SALVTARIS HOSTIA (O Host of Salvation). The work is also signed by the artist: OPUS MINI.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.

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