Mino da Fiesole and his style

I want consider in this essay that one sculpture, certainly less known from public, and today in Saint John of Florentines, Florentine church in Rome; I want consider a sculpture was attributed to young Michael Angel by Roberto Longhi; but this attribution is failed and it is evident, because it was sufficient consider that the style of this master is very near to Mino da Fiesole(Figs.1-5), same marked cut of the eyes(Figs.1,3), same slenderness that we must consider for  this Saint John(Figs.6-7), and more skin, this is smoothness of skin; it is very motive to recognize Mino’s manner; portrait of Rinaldo della Luna(Fig.4) is correspondent to this manner of skin, and the firmness of the hair, that is recurring reason to works of Mino’s; in fact to this sculpture it is present(Fig.1) and this motive is repeated always for sculptures of Mino’s. This sculpture is mentioned this first time at 1493in the church of San Orsola, very near to actual church of Saint John of Florentines.

Alessandro Lusana 

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