According to the Book of Antonio Billi, this work incorporates a portrait of Giovanni di Barduccio Cheruchini.
According to the Book of Antonio Billi, this work incorporates a portrait of Giovanni di Barduccio Cheruchini. The figure's mantle is clearly too large, in stark contrast to depictions of fabric folds in contemporary works like Nanni di Banco's Four Crowned Saints at Orsanmichele, and the drapery's loop on the left shoulder and lower folds sag forward, appearing to pull the figure into a slight bend from the waist. Current speculation that this work actually depicts Elisha arises partly from evidence regarding a depiction of that prophet on the doors of the facing baptistery and from the story in II Kings in which a (*) feature that prophet shares with this sculpture leads children to mock him, leading God to send a bear to devour them. Vasari is the source of the anecdote that its artist, while sculpting its dramatically open mouth, ordered it to "Speak, damn you! Speak!" Originally occupying a niche on the east campanile of the Florence Cathedral, FTP, name this sculpture supposedly representing the prophet Habbakuk better known for a nickname referring to its baldness.
According to the Book of Antonio Billi, this work incorporates a portrait of Giovanni di Barduccio Cheruchini.
{Il Zuccone} [or Habbakuk before mentioned; or {Abbacchuco}; prompt on "{Pumpkinhead}"]