Two Angels Holding Coat of Arms of the Minerbetti Family

ca. between 1482 and 1485

Francesco di Simone Ferrucci Italian, 1437-1493

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Two Angels Holding Coat of Arms of the Minerbetti Family

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Title Two Angels Holding Coat of Arms of the Minerbetti Family

Artwork Date ca. between 1482 and 1485

Artist Francesco di Simone Ferrucci

Life Dates 1437-1493

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Marble, with traces of polychromy on reverse

Dimensions Overall: 20 1/2 × 61 inches (52.1 × 154.9 cm) Including base (mounted lunette for hanging): 38 7/8 × 73 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (98.7 × 186.7 × 21.6 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Haass

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 27.384

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until 1808, Chapel of S. Pancrazio (Florence, Italy)

(P.W. French and Co., New York, New York, USA)

Dr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Haass

1927-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Clochar, P. Monuments, et Tombeaux, Mesures et Dessines en Italie. Paris, 1815, pp. 10-11 (pl. 15).

Valentiner, W.R. "An Unknown Work by Benedetto da Majano." Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 4 (January 1928): pp. 41-42, p. 42 (ill.).

Kennedy, C. Il Monumento Minerbetti di Francesco di Simone e le origini del suo stile, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Winter 1919 - 1932.

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculpture. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 58 (ill.) [unpaginated].

Paatz. 1952, IV, p. 572, 586, no. 60.

Conforti, M. Apollo 111 (February 1980): pp. 119-22 (fig. 3).

Darr, A.P. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit." Apollo 124 (December 1986): p. 479 (fig. 5).

Darr, A.P. 1992, p. 132 (fig. 95).

Cagliotti, F. Ad Alessandro Conti:1946-1994. Pisa, 1996, pp. 1-2, 132-133, 149.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, I, cat. 61.

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Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, Two Angels Holding Coat of Arms of the Minerbetti Family, ca. between 1482 and 1485, marble, with traces of polychromy on reverse. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Haass, 27.384.