Workshop of Benedetto Buglioni (Florence 1459 - 1521), Italian, Florence, first quarter 16th century

Benedetto Buglioni was a pupil of Andrea Verrocchio and became the director of the only rival workshop to the Della Robbia that produced glazed terracotta sculpture in Florence in the 16^th century. These charming figures of candle-bearing angels are modelled with a clear debt to the Della Robbia style but the unglazed portions (the head, hands and feet) and some of specific colors used by the sculptor are comparable to other kneeling angels ascribed to Benedetto Buglioni by Giancarlo Gentilini, particularly a pair of kneeling angels from the Spinelli collection, Florence.¹

¹G. Gentillini, op. cit., 1998, p. 353

RELATED LITERATURE

G. Gentilini (cir.), I Della Robbia e L'arte nuova' della scultura invetriata, exhibition catalogue, Basilica di Sant'Alessandro, Fiesole, 29 May – 1 November 1998;

M. Bormand, J.R. Gaborit, Les Della Robbia. Sculptures en terre cuite émaillée de la Renaissance italienne, Paris, 2002, pp. 64-68.