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Sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Saint Matthew
is a 2.7-m high bronze statue of
Saint Matthew
by
Lorenzo Ghiberti
, completed in 1420 for the Arte del Cambio. One of a cycle of fourteen patron saints of the
Florentine
guilds commissioned for the external niches of
Orsanmichele
, it is now in the
Museo di Orsanmichele
.
Bibliography (in Italian)
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- Paola Grifoni, Francesca Nannelli,
Le statue dei santi protettori delle arti fiorentine e ils Museo di Orsanmichele
, Quaderni del servizio educativo, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze 2006.
- Giulia Brunetti,
Ghiberti
, Sansoni, Firenze 1966.
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