Florence 1874, at the corner of a house in Piazza delle Cipolle (today Piazza Strozzi) there was a tabernacle representing a Madonna sitting on a throne of clouds holding the child on the right knee with the sphere of the world in hand, two small cherubs overlook Behind the shoulders of the Madonna. The table in oaks on which the Madonna is painted, unfortunately it has been compressed over the various centuries by other pictorial interventions, the work according to the style should be datable to the seventeenth century, originally it also had a lamp as it is testified by some old photos and drawings. The peculiarity of this tabernacle is the frame made up of diamond pointed bosses that rests on a shelf supported by two modiglioni. During the nineteenth -century works to expand the square he was removed and put in a city deposit, only in 1953 he was recovered in the filing of the Museum of Florence as he was and posted in the wall of the former Oblate in via dell’Oruolo., Where he is currently visible .
di Staff