Search	The Work of San Casciano Val di Pesa, Museo di Arte Sacra :: Processional cross Tuscan Manifacture, Late 14th century - early 15th century :: Martyrdom of St. Lucy Giovan Camillo Ciabilli, Late 17th century :: Thurible Tuscan Manifacture, Dated 1775 :: Navicule Tuscan Manifacture, Dated 1775 :: Madonna and Child Gino Micheli da Castello, Dated 1341 :: Sculpted Column Master of Cabestany, Second half of the 12th century :: Chasuble Tuscan Manifacture, 16th century and late 15th century-16th century :: Cope Tuscan Manifacture, Late 17th century :: Madonna and Child Lippo di Benivieni, Second decade of the 14th century :: Coronation of the Virgin Neri di Bicci, Dated 1476 and 1481 :: The Archangel St. Michael and stories from the legend of his life Coppo di Marcovaldo, 1250-1260 ca. :: St. Anthony Abbot, St. Sebastian and St. Rocchus Master of Tavarnelle, 1510-1515 ca. :: Madonna and Child Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Dated 1319	.:. works .:. artists Chasuble 16th century and late 15th century-16th century Tuscan Manifacture San Casciano Val Di Pesa, Museum of Religious Art Damask; brocatel (not the original braid and antique lining); 119 x 73cm. Source: Church of San Gaudenzio at Campoli The damask of the chasuble is designed with plant motifs composed of intertwined branches with acorns and oak leaves. The central column is made of brocatel, while the lower part is gilded and decorated on the back with a pinkish coloured ogival design containing thistle flowers. The column on the front, which forms a cross created by a gold and purple inset in brocade, has a pattern of two alternate ogival motifs linked by curving spirals: one contains a stylised thistle flower and the other the scene of Christ in Pietà, stylistically close to Florentine painting of the second half of the 16th century. These stylistic observations clearly show that the column in brocatel was recovered from an older religious vestment, produced by a Florentine manufacturer between the late 15th and early16th centuries, and used to make up the chasuble, carried out sometime later in a 16th century Tuscan workshop.The chasuble is typical of the type produced in the last decades of the 16th century, when there was a clear separation between textiles used for decoration, characterised by large patterns, and those instead designed for clothing in general, often decorated, as in this case, with many small designs, based on regularly repeated bunches of flowers or flowering branches.The decision to reutilise the older piece of material, with its large ogival stitches, shows how very popular this typical early Renaissance decorative motif was, which not only continued to be used and produced for the whole of the 16th century, but also in the early decades of the 17th century. back print
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