Saint Jerome

This relief, signed and dated 1484, was made for the Arca of San Arealdo, which unfortunately was dismembered and has come down to us badly damaged. It belongs to the period in which Amadeo shows most strongly the influence of the style of the Mantegazza. He then exercises his virtuosity in “enclosing the reliefs in the box of perspective, sawing into it the planes of crystallised images” (Longhi), with a sharp stiacciato that translates into a cursive, immediate idiom the highly refined and calibrated transitions and inlays of an Agostino di Duccio or a Mino da Fiesole.