The Accademia Gallery makes purchases at the Florence Biennale. Here are the new acquisitions

Very interesting new acquisitions for the Accademia Gallery in Florence, which made purchases at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato. In recent days, the Florentine museum institute had already secured the marble bust of playwright Giovan Battista Niccolini, a work by Lorenzo Bartolini signed and dated 1827, which had been purchased by the Association of Friends of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence from antiquarian Giovanni Pratesi, who brought the sculpture to the Biennale.

Now comes another very important purchase: in fact, the Gallery has secured two precious gold backgrounds, a panel with Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas of Bari and another with Saints Anthony Abbot and Julian, works by Mariotto di Nardo di Cione. The two paintings, datable to 1422-1424, were part of the Corsini collection in Florence (the Biennale, moreover, is held precisely at Palazzo Corsini) and were purchased from antiquarian Salamon of Milan. They are two 60 x 30 centimeter plates, first attributed in the early 20th century by Oswald Sirén and referred to the artist’s last period of activity by Miklós Boskovits.

The purchase of the two works, which had already undergone a declaration of cultural interest by the Italian state, was suggested by the deputy director of the Accademia Gallery, Angelo Tartuferi. The two panels now replenish the Gallery’s already substantial medieval section.

Image: Mariotto di Nardo, Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas (left) and Anthony Abbot and Julian (right), 1422-1424; tempera on panel, 60 x 30 cm each; Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia

The Accademia Gallery makes purchases at the Florence Biennale. Here are the new acquisitions

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