Keywords

• In the gradual improvement of the Art History instruments
• the recording and the comparison of the constructive solutions of funeral monuments isnâ€
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• t an acquired methodological use.
• By analising Francesco di Simoneâ€
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• s monuments the essay explains how important is to conduce this type of study: the constructive solutions used by Ferrucci tell about his relation with the Rossellinesque school
• through the apprenticeship with Desiderio da Settignano. Ferrucciâ€
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• s tombs will find precise correspondences with the archetypes of Florentine funeral sculpture of the second half of the XV century: Leonardo Bruniâ€
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• s tomb by Bernardo Rossellino and Carlo Marsuppiniâ€
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• s tomb by Desiderio da Settignano. The comparison between the different methods of stone cutting and assemblage used by Ferrucci and the relieves of Bruni and Marsuppini tombs (made by Opificio delle Pietre Dure on occasion of their restoration)
• reveals the most specific features of Ferrucciâ€
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• s projects
• offering also new insights for the art of Bernardo and Desiderio (for example
• how an itinerant sculptor like Ferrucci divides in a large number of slabs the different parts of a monument
• in order to reduce the waste of marble). The essay ends with the analysis of the Vianesio Albergati tomb
• which shows how Ferrucci looks at Andrea Bregnoâ€
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• s Juan Dìaz tomb
• reproducing it with Florentine constructive solutions