Florentine craftsmen, Eight columns with historiated capitals
- Author
- Florentine craftsmen
- Date
- 1490-1525 ca.
- Collocation
- Teatrino mediceo
- Original location
- Cathedral, (choir enclosure?)
- Material
- White marble
- Technique
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Height: 209,5 cm; Width: 27 cm; Depth: 27 cm;
Group of eight columns with a circular section, and historiated capitals, in pairs. These columns are perhaps to be identified with those that surmounted the enclosure of the choir of the Cathedral, before the construction of the monumental one by Bandinelli and Giuliano di Baccio d'Agnolo. They show stylistic characteristics that place them between the end of the fifteenth century and the first quarter of the following century. It may therefore be that they belonged to a marble choir built after the Brunelleschi wooden one, completed in 1439, which was dismantled, but partly incorporated into the new Bandinellian choir.