The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
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The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)
Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
Art -- Italy -- Siena; Duomo di Siena; Pavements, Mosaic
With his brother Antonio was, in 1552, party to a receipt in full,
given by the Opera del Duomo to Pastorino Pastorini, the painter and
worker in glass, for work done there.[219]
48. 1562. _Domenico di Pier Giovanni._
Of this man also no record is to be found, but perhaps he was the son
of the mason, Pier Giovanni, mentioned in a document dated 1537, who
opened up an arch for a niche in connection with Sodoma’s work on the
Cappella di Piazza.[220]
From this time, for over 200 years, the Pavement work stood still,
until:
49. 1780. _Carlo Amidei_, a craftsman of a very mediocre type.
50. 1780. _Matteo Pini_, who was probably only a mason.
Then another century passed away, until our own day.
51. 1875. _Professor Alessandro Franchi._
52. 1875. _Professor Leopoldo Maccari._
53. 1875. _Antonio Radicchi._
54. 1875. _Giuseppe Radicchi._
These names belong to the History of Modern Italian Art, so that I need
do no more than mention them in passing, as they hardly come into the
scope of this work.
CHAPTER IV
OTHER PAVEMENT WORK
As far as I have been able to ascertain, there are but three other
examples of Pavement work, similar to that employed in the Siena Duomo.
Mosaic pavements, of course, abound all over Italy, with more or less
elaborate designs, fanciful, historical, or symbolical;[221] but none
of them really resembles this kind of work, which seems to have been
peculiar to the artistic mind of the Sienese. The only other works,
that I can find, that can, in any degree, be allied to it are:
1. The Cathedral Pavement at Lucca.
2. The Pavement of the Piccolomini Chapel at S. Francesco, in Siena.
3. The Pavement of the Chapel of Sta. Caterina in S. Domenico, in
the same town.
Let us take them in order of date.
1. _The Cathedral Pavement at Lucca._
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