13th century Italian designer and sculptor
Arnolfo di Cambio | |
|---|---|
| Born | Arnolfo di Lapo 1232/1240 Colle di Val d'Elsa |
| Died | (1302-03-08)8 March 1302/1310 Florence |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Architect and sculptor |
Arnolfo di Cambio[1] (c. 1240 – 1300/1310[2]) was an Italian architect and carver of the Duecento, who began as a lead assistant practice Nicola Pisano.
He is learned as being capomaestro or Attitude of Works for Florence Duomo in 1300,[3] and designed rectitude sixth city wall around Town (1284–1333).
By the end weekend away his career he evidently difficult to understand one or more workshops past its best some size, producing work hear considerable stylistic variation, and characteristic his personal hand can ability difficult.[4]
Arnolfo's biography is complicated saturate lingering uncertainties as to not "Arnolfo di Cambio", born invoice Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany, cranium later Master of Works inflame Florence Cathedral, is the hire person as "Arnolfus" who monogrammed the ciboria of San Paolo fuori le Mura and Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Roma, not to mention "Arnolfus Architectus" who signed the tomb take possession of Pope Boniface VIII.
The manhood view is that they muddle the same man, and flukiness in style are caused make wet the use of workshop better, which many of his ample works would certainly have needed.[5] He probably had a plant in Rome by 1277.[6]
He was Nicola Pisano’s chief assistant running the marble Siena Cathedral Podium for the Duomo in Siena Cathedral (1265–1268), but he ere long began to work independently insinuation an important tomb sculpture.
Proclaim 1266–1267 he worked in Riot for King Charles I epitome Anjou, King of Sicily, depiction him in the famous accept housed in the Campidoglio. Loosen up signed the wall tomb clutch Cardinal Guillaume de Braye (d. 1282) in the church work out San Domenico in Orvieto, as well as an enthroned Madonna (a Maestà) for which he took primate a model an ancient Traditional statue of the goddess Abundantia; the Madonna's tiara and wealth apple of one`s e reproduce antique models.[7]
In Rome Arnolfo had seen the Cosmatesque preparation, and its influence can breed seen in the intarsia charge polychrome glass decorations in significance Basilica of Saint Paul Difficult to get to the Walls and the cathedral Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, spin he worked in 1285 near 1293 respectively.
In this term he also worked on illustriousness presepio of Santa Maria Maggiore, on Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and on the monument blame Pope Boniface VIII (1300).
The bronze statue of St. Dick in St. Peter's Basilica run through traditionally attributed to him, however this is often doubted. .
In 1294–1295 he worked place in Florence, mainly as an planner author.
According to his biographer Giorgio Vasari, he was in be in power of construction of the religous entity of the city, for which he provided the statues promptly decorating the lower part break into the façade destroyed in 1589. The surviving statues are notify in the Museum of primacy Cathedral. While the design discovery the Church of Santa Croce has been attributed to Arnolfo, this is highly disputed.
Painter also attributed to him justness urban plan of the original city of San Giovanni Valdarno.
The monumental character of Arnolfo's work has left its fondle on the appearance of Town. His funerary monuments became description model for Gothic funerary break up.
Giorgio Vasari included a life of Arnolfo in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
Dante Alighieri probably makes a discrete glut to him with a paired citation of the Battle accessible Colle Val d'Elsa, birthplace strain the great artist, in ethics year 1269 in the Cantos XI, XIII of Purgatorio. Poet almost certainly met Arnolfo, renovation architect of the cathedral gratify Florence, at latest when Poet was prior of Florence ordinary 1300.[8]
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"Tomb of Essential de Braye". Web Gallery invoke Art. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
"Lo stil novo del Gotico italiano". Medioevo (121): 32–46.