Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio | |
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Born | Arnolfo di Lapo 1232/1240 |
Died | |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Architect and sculptor |
Arnolfo di Cambio
By the end of his career he evidently had one or more workshops of some size, producing work with considerable stylistic variation, and distinguishing his personal hand can be difficult.[4]
Biography
Arnolfo's biography is complicated by lingering uncertainties as to whether "Arnolfo di Cambio", born in
He was
In Rome Arnolfo had seen the
The bronze statue of
In 1294–1295 he worked in Florence, mainly as an architect. According to his biographer
The monumental character of Arnolfo's work has left its mark on the appearance of Florence. His funerary monuments became the model for Gothic funerary art.
Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Arnolfo in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
Dante Alighieri probably makes a discrete reference to him with a double citation of the Battle at Colle Val d'Elsa, birthplace of the great artist, in the year 1269 in the Cantos XI, XIII of Purgatorio. Dante almost certainly met Arnolfo, as architect of the cathedral in Florence, at latest when Dante was prior of Florence in 1300.[8]
Selected works
Architecture
- Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Cathedral, 1296. Arnolfo's design for the facade was extended and completed by other architects in the 14th and 15th centuries.[9]It has now been reconstructed in part in the Cathedral Museum.
- Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, 1299.[10]
- Ciborium of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
- Ciborium of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome, completed 1285 and signed "Arnolfus cum suo socio Petro".[11]
Sculpture
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Detail of the tomb of Riccardo Cardinal Annibaldi, atSt. John Lateran. This was the first major work of Arnolfo in Rome.
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Tomb of PopeBoniface VIII
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Crib group,Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
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Madonna group, Florence Cathedral Museum
- Monument to San Francesco, Viterbo
- Monument to Riccardo Cardinal Annibaldi (1276) – San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome[12]
- Statue of Charles I of Anjou (c. 1277) – Capitoline Museums, Rome.[13]
- Fountain of the Thirsty People (Fontana Minore) – Perugia[14]
- Tomb of Cardinal Guillaume de Bray (who died 1282) – San Domenico, Orvieto[15]
- Monument of Pope Boniface VIII, Vatican crypt (Grotte Vaticane)
- St. Peter Enthroned inside St. Peter's Basilica, is often attributed to Arnolfo.[16]
Footnotes
- ^ The name "Arnolfo di Lapo" by which he is mentioned in some sources was an invention by his biographer Giorgio Vasari. See Tomasi, 2007.
- ^ The traditional date of 1302 has been recently discovered to be wrong. See Tomasi, 2007.
- ^ White, 30
- ^ White, 93, 112
- ^ White, 93
- ^ White, 106
- ^ Roberto Weiss, The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity (Oxford: Blackwell) 1973:14 note 2.
- ^ Lombardi, Giancarlo (2022). L'Estetica Dantesca del Dualismo (in Italian). Borgomanero, Novara, Italy: Giuliano Ladolfi Editore.
- D. Appleton. p. 182.
- ISBN 9780300061260.
- ^ White, 105
- JSTOR 876902.
- S2CID 159990935.
- ISBN 9780810901698.
- ^ Krén, Emil; Marx, Daniel. "Tomb of Cardinal de Braye". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ISBN 9781134268542.
Sources
- Tomasi, Michele (February 2007). "Lo stil novo del Gotico italiano". Medioevo (121): 32–46.
- ISBN 0300055854
External links
- Arnolfo di Cambio in the "History of Art". Archived 1 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine