Introduction: the “Donatello Project” Neville Rowley

Attorno a Donatello: trittio berlinese. Bernardo Ciuffagni, Nanni di Bartolo, Jacopo della Quercia Laura Cavazzini This article successively studies three neglected works from the sculpture collection of the Berlin Museums related to Donatello: a standing marble Virgin and Child, which the author proposes to give to Bernardo Ciuffagni; a seated terracotta Virgin and Child, which…

Donatello, the birth of Renaissance Plaquettes and their representation in the Berlin Sculpture Collection Michale Riddick Wilhelm (von) Bode´s spirit of acquisition in turn-of-the-century Berlin would result in forming a significant and comprehensive collection of Donatelloesque plaquettes, here explored for their function and influence in the genesis of plaquettes as a genre of sculpture.

The Alessandri Madonna in the Sculpture Collection of the Berlin State Museums:’Fake’ or ‘Original’?Research and Restoration of a terracotta relief attributed to Luca della Robbia Cartsen Schneider This article reports on a recent restoration of a work from the Sculpture Collection of the Berlin Museums.A painted terracotta lunette representing the Virgin and Child between two…

The Berlin and Washington busts of the Young Saint John the Baptist and the altered legacy of Desiderio da Settignano Alison Luchs At least three surviving Florentine painted terracotta busts of the young John the Baptist appear to derivefrom the same mid-fifteenth-century model. The style and high quality of that model, once attributedto Donatello, are…

Lorenzo de’Medicis’s bust in Berlin: (dis)order and (mis)fortune of a casting tradition Fabio Gaffo No portrayal has likely done more to crystallize the image we have of Lorenzo de’ Medici than theRenaissance terracotta bust in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Credited with spreading whatis his most largely attested depiction, more than a dozen…

Due aggiunte al Marrina plasticatore: una figura e un busto di Santa Ctaerina da Siena Gabriele Fattorini Lorenzo di Mariano known as Marrina (1476-1534) emerges from the most recent studies as the lastgreat Sienese sculptor of the Renaissance. He was able to stand out not only for his extraordinary “ornatiall’antica” in marble, but also for…

Michael Knuth e la scultura rinascimentale italiana del Bode-Museum Matteo Ceriana Michael Knuth (1949-2010) was curator of the sculpture collection at the Berlin Museums for three decades. This article pays tribute to the art historian’s choices, particularly in the field of fourteenth- and fifteenthcentury Italian sculpture scholarship, but also with regard to its presentation in…

What Happened in the Friedrichshain Flak Bunker in May 1945 ? Regine Dehnel The paper outlines the history of the anti-aircraft bunker located in the Friedrichshain park near the historiccenter of Berlin in the months and years following the end of World War II. This bunker was one of thecentral locations in which the Berlin…

Between Lost and Found. Notes on historical aspects of transition of art objects from the Berlin Sculpture Collection during and after WWII Anastasia Yurchenko This paper provides an insight into the destiny of translocated art objects from the Berlin Sculpture Collection after WWII. Numerous pieces of art were lost, damaged and moved to the USSR;…