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Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:40 pm
by Bruce N H
Hey all,

Inspired by this altarpiece painted by Simone Martini in 1324 depicting miracles attributed to the saint Agostino Novello:
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Italian builder mautara has created a series of MOCs:
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illustrating, respectively, the bottom left, upper left and upper right panels from the altarpiece. He is currently working on a LEGO version of the fourth miracle in the lower right panel.

Bruce

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:02 pm
by Teherean
This looks great! Some nice scenes and architecture going on here.

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:01 pm
by Tycho McKorley
I think that they look wonderful. It definitely has a strong Italian feel to it.

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:02 am
by mautara
OK! it works.

the description is very accurate and
Tycho McKorley wrote:I think that they look wonderful. It definitely has a strong Italian feel to it.
yes i try to get an italic feeling in my buildings

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:09 am
by Barbrickian
Nice work.

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:07 pm
by JoshWedin
That is really quite good. I need to do some research about the original now. I've never seen it before.

Josh

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:35 pm
by Shadowviking
Cool floating cloud- I didn't know there was a Western equivalent of Son Goku. :tasty:
(jests aside, this is really pretty cool.)

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:46 pm
by Bruce N H
Mautara,

I'm glad your login works now. Welcome to CC!

Josh,

follow the link from the original painting in my post above for some background.

Bruce

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:29 am
by albero78
I like your creations very much and they gave me inspiration.
Ciao,
Andrea

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:17 pm
by mautara
The fourth miracle is ready! This time Agostino saves a child fallen from his cradle.

the gallery
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=406247

(I tried to use deeplink but i wasn't able. It seems that images are too big. Anyway I posted a sample on Eurobricks:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p ... ntry602335)

I hope you enjoy it

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:29 pm
by albero78
It's wonderful like the others but the indoor details are even better: the loom (telaio) above all.
The palace is also beatiful and the combination of arches in the windows are creative.
Andrea

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:42 pm
by mystuffiscool
:o I love this and all your other vignettes and dioramas! (^The loom most of all :wink: ) I wish my endeavors could even touch your work! :mrgreen:

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:50 am
by Bruce N H
Hey Mautara,

I'm glad you did the fourth panel. It's a great MOC. As others have said, that loom is particularly inspired. I also really like the group playing instruments. So, what's next? Do you have another artwork in mind for your next MOC?

Bruce

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:10 am
by mautara
I'm very happy you all like my last creation as the others, and i'm also happy you like the loom. I made several tries before i got this last one. On the contrary i made the reel (i hope the word is correct) in just one evening :)

My next project will be St Mauro who walked on water to save st. Placido, a fresco by Sodoma in the abbey of Monteoliveto. Sorry, i can't find any picture of it on the web so you all have to wait too see both the artwork and my MOC :wink:

Re: Miracles of Agostino Novello

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:58 pm
by mautara
Hi everybody,
my latest creation is a little esagonal church that completes the diorama of miracles 1, 2 and 4. even if there's no more agostino novello the scale and the style are the same of previous MOCs.

brickshelf has no upload so i opened an account on flickr where you can find both the church and the diorama

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45006672@N04/

i hope you all enjoy it