On the façade of the church of St. Peter in Luco, once belonging to the antique female camaldolese monastery, there is a lunette in majolica portraying the Madonna with Child inside a tondo between two angels in adoration. The legible inscription below informs us that the work was donated in 1930 by the Traversi Barchielli family, probably in the course of the vast restoration of the church, concluded in 1932 and in which Dino Chino also took part in the internal pictorial decorations no longer present.
The lunette does not seem to bear factory marks, but nevertheless it seems difficult not to link it to the activity of the San Lorenzo Furnaces, in a period in which the manufacturing was orientated, above all, towards a neo-Renaissance production, in the wake of the great Tuscan artistic tradition.
In this case, the central tondo seems to re-echo the so-called Madonna Pazzi of Donatello, in a composition brightened by the intense blue of the background and by the luminous gilded decorations.
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