The Coronation of Ferdinando I d'Aragona and Six Musicians

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The central group signifies the coronation of Ferdinando I d'Aragona by cardinal Latino Orsini, which took place on February 4, 1459, in Barletta. It was commissioned along with the Musicians and other lost figures from Benedetto da Maiano for the Porta Capuana in Naples but this outstanding sculptural decoration remained unfinished and the individual figures were scattered after Benedetto's death in Florence, where he had carved them. The Coronation entered the Bargello in 1870 while the Musicians were acquired by the Italian State for the museum exactly a century later.