The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy): hypotheses from archaeometric multi-technique investigations.
Balassone G, Toscano M, Cavazzini G, De Bonis A, D'Orazio L, Joachimski M, Weihe H, Prochaska W, Mondillo N, Mormone A, Petti C, Solpietro A (2014)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2014
Journal
Publisher: Elsevier
Book Volume: 15
Pages Range: 414-423
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2013.09.002
Abstract
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 Historical documents testify that the sculpture was a property of the cadet branch of noble Tuscan family of the Medici, the Medici of Ottaviano.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. © 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS.
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University of Naples "L'Orientale" / Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"
Italy (IT)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) / National Research Council of Italy
Italy (IT)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italy (IT)
University of Copenhagen
Denmark (DK)
Montanuniversität Leoben
Austria (AT)
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Italy (IT)
Italy (IT)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) / National Research Council of Italy
Italy (IT)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italy (IT)
University of Copenhagen
Denmark (DK)
Montanuniversität Leoben
Austria (AT)
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Italy (IT)
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APA:
Balassone, G., Toscano, M., Cavazzini, G., De Bonis, A., D'Orazio, L., Joachimski, M.,... Solpietro, A. (2014). The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy): hypotheses from archaeometric multi-technique investigations. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 15, 414-423. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2013.09.002
MLA:
Balassone, Giuseppina, et al. "The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy): hypotheses from archaeometric multi-technique investigations." Journal of Cultural Heritage 15 (2014): 414-423.
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