Tracce di oreficeria sacra medievale nella diocesi di Trento: due calici tardogotici di produzione veneta

This article discusses two little known sacred goldsmith works of the Late Middle Ages, both preserved in the diocesan territory of Trento: a chalice from the parish church of San Giorgio in Vigolo Vattaro, and a chalice belonging to the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Pieve Tesino. The former can be put in relation with a series of liturgical chalices, produced in Venice and spread throughout the Veneto region, which are characterized by a decoration with enamelled plaques placed in a hexalobate foot with points and inside the bezels of the knob. Through an in-depth analysis of the typology and stylistic elements characterizing these artefacts, the present article intends to propose their dating to the fourteenth-century, contrary to the current one that places them in the fifteenth-century. The chalice belonging to the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Pieve Tesino is dated to the mid-fifteenth century, and has been defined as a product of a Venetian workshop by critics. The present article will provide a new attribution proposal for this chalice: the particular type of knob with balustrades and niches, together with the ornamentations of the six-lobed and six-pointed foot, can be related to different Paduan goldsmith works.