The Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa
Giuseppe Andreoni
Category
Models
Date
circa 1850 - circa 1880
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
Measurements
400 x 520 mm
Place of origin
Pisa
Order this imageCollection
Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
NT 421999
Summary
Alabaster sculpture of the Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa by Giuseppe Andreoni, mid-19th-century; the scale model in alabaster with detail in coloured marble and other stones is mounted on a rectangular ebonised base. Signed on the alabaster ground at the east end of the church: G. Andreoni, Pisa. The church was built in 1230-1323 to house a thorn from Christ's Crown of Thorns, the gift of a Pisan merchant. It was dismantled and rebuilt on its present site in 1871
Marks and inscriptions
On alabaster ground at east end of church: 'PISA / G. ANDREONI'
Makers and roles
Giuseppe Andreoni