Childbirth

The plate in memory of professor Giuseppe Resinelli, Florentine gynaecologist who died in 1915 (portrayed as a man with a white coat who assists a woman in labour), was commissioned to Andreotti by the rector of the University of Florence, Giulio Chiarugi, through Ojetti and executed by 1916. It was published in 1916 by Giovanni Costetti in “La Tempra”, in the same article where he presented the portrait of Marquise Niccolini, recognizing the recovery of the lost contact point “between our great art of the past and the present one”. Ojetti liked the bas-relief, and in the article dedicated to Andreotti on “Dedalo” in 1920 he praised its simplicity and its clearness, its “composition and expression capacity”, considering it as paradigmatic of his own neo-traditional theories. He also praised the “Ghirlandaio recollection” of the maid with basin, “because it reveals that this sculptor doesn’t fear the old masters”; and in fact in the Plate the recollections transmitted by Jacopo della Quercia and Nicola Pisano blend together with the “marked Cézanne style which reconstructed the volume”. This art piece was awarded a golden medal by the Ministry of Public Education.

Floor:
Room: Bas reliefs
Year: 1916 ca.
Author: Libero Andreotti