TY - JOUR
T1 - The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy)
T2 - hypotheses from archaeometric multi-technique investigations
AU - Balassone, Giuseppina
AU - Toscano, Maria
AU - Cavazzini, Giancarlo
AU - Bonis, Alberto De
AU - D'Orazio, Loredana
AU - Joachimski, Michael
AU - Weihe, Høgni
AU - Prochaska, Walter
AU - Mondillo, Nicola
AU - Mormone, Angela
AU - Petti, Carmela
AU - Solpietro, Antonia
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A life-size whitish marble statue of a "Virgin with Child" has been recently rediscovered in the St.Rosario church located in Ottaviano, a small town near Naples (southern Italy). This artwork shows stylistic features of the Tuscan-Roman school of the 16th century, and is framed in an intriguing historical context. Historical documents testify that the sculpture was a property of the cadet branch of noble Tuscan family of the Medici, the Medici of Ottaviano. A multianalytical approach has been used to try to indicate the supply area of the white marble of the studied sculpture. Considering the whole mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical data, the source rock can be possibly limited to the main classical white marbles of the Mediterranean district, as the classical marble of Aphrodisias. A reuse practice of a former artwork can be also hypothesized.
AB - A life-size whitish marble statue of a "Virgin with Child" has been recently rediscovered in the St.Rosario church located in Ottaviano, a small town near Naples (southern Italy). This artwork shows stylistic features of the Tuscan-Roman school of the 16th century, and is framed in an intriguing historical context. Historical documents testify that the sculpture was a property of the cadet branch of noble Tuscan family of the Medici, the Medici of Ottaviano. A multianalytical approach has been used to try to indicate the supply area of the white marble of the studied sculpture. Considering the whole mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical data, the source rock can be possibly limited to the main classical white marbles of the Mediterranean district, as the classical marble of Aphrodisias. A reuse practice of a former artwork can be also hypothesized.
KW - Italian cultural heritage
KW - Marble sculpture
KW - Multi-methodological approach
KW - Provenance
U2 - 10.1016/j.culher.2013.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.culher.2013.09.002
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84904706148
SN - 1296-2074
VL - 15
SP - 414
EP - 423
JO - Journal of Cultural Heritage
JF - Journal of Cultural Heritage
IS - 4
ER -