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The reliefs represent scenes from the life of the Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni - in this one he is feeding the pilgrims.  The chapel for which they were made was the room in which the illustrious ancestor of the Sansedoni had once lived. \n\nSoldani received his training as a sculptor and medallist in Rome and Paris before being recalled to Florence, where he worked for about 40 years as the Master of the Mint for the Medici Grand-Dukes of Tuscany. The desire to collect the creative processes of the artist in tangible form that had developed, notably in Florence, in the sixteenth century, was still alive. It appears that Soldani gave at least some of his models away, and these two reliefs were given by him to the Sansedoni family as gifts, probably in the frames in which they are still housed.","physicalDescription":"'The Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni Feeding the Pilgrims', oval relief sketch model in wax (for a bronze relief in the Chapel of the Palazzo Sansedoni, Siena).  The pilgrims are seen seated round an oval table spread with a cloth, and with rolls and two plates of game upon it.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Soldani Benzi, Massimiliano","id":"A29994"},"association":{"text":"sculptor","id":"AAT25181"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"wax","id":"AAT14585"}],"techniques":[{"text":"relief","id":"AAT53622"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Wax relief","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Reliefs","id":"THES49035"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2012FT6110","2019MA6786"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"6","id":"THES49750"},"free":"","case":"CA1","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Model","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Florence","id":"x28848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1692-1700","earliest":"1687-01-01","latest":"1700-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"A.2-1963","id":"O312072"},"association":"Part"}],"creditLine":"Purchased with the aid of a contribution from the Hildburgh Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"79.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"70.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"100.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"frame","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"83.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"frame","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"11","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"4/1/2013","earliest":"2013-01-04","latest":"2013-01-04"},"part":"maximum","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured by Conservation 2012.\n\nDepth measurements by SCP (LS) and FTF (DH) for Europe 1600-1800 on 4/1/2012.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This dark red wax relief and its pair (A.2-1963) are models for bronze reliefs, which were cast by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1658-1740) for the chapel of the Palazzo Sansedoni at Siena. They show scenes from the life of the Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni; in this one he is feeding the pilgrims. \r\n\r\nBoth differ in the details from the bronzes realised after the design, which were placed in the room in which the saint had once lived. Soldani gave both these reliefs to the Sansedoni family at Siena (see Zikos in Vienna 2005, loc.cit.), and probably had them placed within their current frames for the purpose of their display within the palace.\n\nPurchased together with A.2-1963 in 1963.","historicalContext":"This and A.2-1963 are sketch models for a bronze relief in the chapel of the Palazzo Sansedoni in Siena. The chapel was in fact the very room in which the saint had once lived, and it was granted all the privileges of a full-scale church by Pope Innocent XII.","briefDescription":"Model, wax relief, The Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni Feeding the Pilgrims, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Italy (Florence), ca. 1692-1700","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Klaus Lankheit, <i>Florentinische Barockplastik; die Kunst am Hofe der letzten Medici, 1670-1743</i>, Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1962","id":"AUTH355733"},"details":" pp. 89-92, pls. 37-43","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Giovanni Pratesi, <i>Repertorio della Scultura Fiorentina del seicento e settecento</i>, Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 1993, 3 vols","id":"AUTH355734"},"details":"Vol III, pl. 511","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Johann Kräftner (ed.), Baroque luxury porcelain : the manufactories of Du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence, exh. cat., Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2005","id":"AUTH355729"},"details":"p. 159 (Dimitrios Zikos)","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Sansedoni, Ambrose (Blessed, of Siena)","id":"N3790"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"monks","id":"AAT25765"},{"text":"pilgrims","id":"x31724"},{"text":"tables","id":"AAT39548"},{"text":"feasts","id":"AAT69097"},{"text":"dogs","id":"x34865"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Reliefs with the Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni\r\nAbout 1692–1700\r\nItaly (Florence)\r\nBy Massimiliano Soldani\r\nWax\r\nPurchased with the aid of a contribution from the Hildburgh Fund\r\nMuseum nos. A.1, 2-1963\n\r\nThese waxes were made by the Master of Coins and Custodian of the Mint for the Medici grand dukes, who ruled Florence. They are models for bronzes made for the chapel of the Palazzo Sansedoni on the main square in Siena. In the 13th century, the site had been the home of the Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni, a Dominican preacher famous for his charitable works.\n","date":{"text":"2015","earliest":"2015-01-01","latest":"2015-12-31"}},{"text":"THE BLESSED AMBROGIO SANSEDONI FEEDING THE PILGRIMS\r\nItalian (Florence); 1692-17000\r\nSketch model in wax\r\nBy Massimiliano Soldani\r\nPurchased with the aid of a contribution from the Hildburgh fund\r\n\r\nThe model is a bronze relief in the Chapel of the Palazzo Sansedoni, Siena. Massimiliano Soldani received his training in Rome and Paris before being recalled to Florence, where he worked for about as master of Coins and Custodian of the Mint for the Medici Grand-Dukes of Tuscany. 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