Keywords

• The article concerns the problems of fake marble decorations painted in two chapels located in the transept of the basilica of Santa Croce in Florence (Pulci-Berardi and Velluti-Zati). The authenticity of the Velluti-Zati chapelâ€
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• s frescoes
• representing geometrical design
• has been put in doubt because of some nineteenth century restorations. The article
• based on stylistic comparisons and documentation of the twentieth century restorations
• tries to demonstrate the authenticity of these frescoes. The originality of certain pictorial solutions adopted in both chapels by the artists working in Santa Croce during the third decade of the fourteenth century (probably related to Master of Santa Cecilia) are also unusual in the context of Florentine painting of this period
• and very closed to Romanesque decoration of San Miniato in Monte in Florence