Donatello Re-discovered? A Name for the Author of the Berlin Flagellation and the Hildburgh Relief

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Chapter 13 Donatello Re-discovered? A Name for the Author of the Berlin Flagellation and the Hildburgh Relief

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Seiten:: 455–497

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004431041_015

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The essay in question investigates the authorship problem of a marble relief of a Flagellation of Christ, attributed to Donatello by Wilhelm von Bode, who had acquired it in Florence from Stefano Bardini. It was, in the past, celebrated as one of the masterworks by the sculptor in the extensive sculpture collection of the Berlin Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. Presumed lost in the fire of the Friedrichshain Bunker in 1945, it was in fact heavily damaged and secretly transferred to the Soviet Union in 1946, where it had entered the collections of the Moscow State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It has recently resurfaced in a collaboration research project led by the Moscow and Berlin museums since 2015. The authorship of the work in question had posed a problem for the scholars for a long time, as the relief had been deprived of an autograph Donatello status by H.W. Janson’s definitive 1957 monograph on the sculptor, and was given instead to a mysterious “Master of the Berlin Flagellation”, tentatively placed into early 16th century. A comprehensive study of the artwork itself and of its iconographical sources have permitted the author of the present paper to clarify some important questions of authenticity and authorship pertaining to this work. The proposed identification of the author of the marble relief with an Anglo-American expatriate sculptor Thomas Waldo Story working in Rome (1854–1915), is backed up by considerable stylistic arguments and biographical data obtained in collaboration with Lynn Catterson. A masterpiece of museum-class forgery, an object with an impeccably constructed provenance, the “Berlin Flagellation” serves to broaden the history of Italian late 19th century art market and museum collecting worldwide. As an immediate consequence, another important but controversial marble relief ascribed to Donatello, the so-called Hildburgh relief from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is hereby relegated to the same hand, as is yet another marble relief in private possession, formerly attributed to Donatello and Luca della Robbia.

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Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks

Reihe: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets, Band: 9

ISBN:: 9789004431041

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 18 Jun 2020

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