Pagno di Lapo Portigiani
Pagno di Lapo Portigiani (1408 — 1470) was an
Biography
Pagno di Lapo was born at Fiesole, near Florence.
In 1426-28 Pagno di Lapo was working as a stone-cutter in the joint shop of Donatello and Michelozzo in
Basing their attributions on Giorgio Vasari, a significant number of Early Renaissance sculptures have been associated with Pagno's name since the late nineteenth century, most notably the Madonna and Child at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.[3] Modern scholars, however, assign to Michelozzo other sculptures Vasari assigns to Pagno di Lapo in the same passage, which Vasari had claimed for Michelozzo in the first edition of his Lives, and more recent documentation reassigns to Pagno di Lupo a less exalted role as a sculptor of decorative stonework.
When Piero de' Medici planned to commission a marble tabernacle in the Gothic
The sole surviving identifiable work by Pagno di Lapo is the inscribed tabernacle frame, which Jansen found "shows him to have been a skillful carver of ornament, but the plastic décor of the structure contains so little of true sculpture that it yields small evidence of his artistic ability."
References
- ^ Giorgio Vasari's brief notes on Pagno di Lapo were added to the second edition of his Lives, embedded in his discussion of Micheozzo.
- ^ First noted by Isabelle Hyman, "Notes and Speculations on S. Lorenzo, Palazzo Medici, and an Urban Project by Brunelleschi", The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 34.2 (May 1975:98-120) and summarized in her Fifteenth Century Florentine Studies: The Palazzo Medici and a Ledger for the Church of San Lorenzo (New York and London) 1977.
- ^ H. W. Janson, "Two Problems in Florentine Renaissance Sculpture: part I. Pagno di Lapo", The Art Bulletin 4.4 (December 1942:326-334) pp 326-
- ^ Hyman 1975. Maso was another of the craftsmen consistently at work in Michelozzo's projects.
- ^ Jansen 1942:329.