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On display at V&A South Kensington
Medieval & Renaissance, Room 62, The Foyle Foundation Gallery

Doorknocker

ca. 1551-1558 (made)
Artist/Maker
Lastricati, Zanobi (maker)
Place of origin
Florence (made)

Lastricati was praised by the famous biographer Vasari as a ‘good and skilful sculptor’ who made many works in marble and bronze. This may be one of a set of bronze doorknockers that Lastricati cast for the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Each one took the form of a diamond ring, a Medici symbol.


Object details

Category
Architectural Fittings
Object type
Doorknocker
Materials and techniques
Cast bronze
Brief description
Doorknocker, bronze, by Zanobi Lastricati, Italy, Florence, late 15th or early 16th century.
Physical description
Cast bronze door knocker in the form of the Medici ring.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.7cm
  • Width: 10cm
  • Depth: 3cm
  • Weight: 0.76kg
Measured for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries
Summary
Lastricati was praised by the famous biographer Vasari as a ‘good and skilful sculptor’ who made many works in marble and bronze. This may be one of a set of bronze doorknockers that Lastricati cast for the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Each one took the form of a diamond ring, a Medici symbol.
Bibliographic references
  • Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1860. In: Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 23
  • Penny, Nicholas. Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum. 1540 to the Present-Day, Vol I Italian, Oxford, 1992, p. 253
  • Bostrom, Antonia. 'Zanobi Lastricati: a newly discovered document', in: Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, Dec. 1994, p. 836, illus. p 835
Collection
Sculpture Collection
Accession number
7400-1860

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Record createdMay 8, 2009
Record URL
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