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Dictionary of Art
and Artists
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CHAPTER THREE
GOTHIC ART
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ARCHITECTURE
- Part 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14
SCULPTURE
- Part 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14
STAINED GLASS
- Part 1,
2
PAINTING
- Part 1,
2
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SCULPTURE
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Italy
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Arnolfo di Cambio
(see also fig. 478)
Arnolfo di Cambio, (born c. 1245, Colle di Val d’Elsa [Italy]—died
1301/10, Florence), Italian sculptor and architect whose works embody
the transition between the late Gothic and Renaissance architectural
sensibilities.
Arnolfo studied painting under Cimabue and sculpture under Nicola
Pisano. He served as assistant to Pisano in 1265–68 in the production of
the pulpit for the Siena Cathedral. Arnolfo went to Rome in 1277 as the
protégé of Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, at which time he may have
produced the monument of Cardinal Annibaldi in the Church of San
Giovanni in Laterano (now disassembled) and the tomb of Pope Adrian V in
the Church of San Francesco, Viterbo. In 1281 he executed a fountain at
Perugia, figures from which survive in the National Gallery of Umbria.
The following year he constructed a monument to Cardinal de Braye (died
1282) in San Domenico at Orvieto and subsequently designed altar
canopies for San Paolo Fuori le Mura (1285) and Santa Cecilia in
Trastevere (1293) in Rome.
In 1296 Arnolfo returned to Florence to undertake his most important
commission, the design of the Duomo (the cathedral of Florence) and the
carving of statues for its facade (now in the Museum of the Duomo).
Other buildings attributed to him are the Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo della
Signoria), the Church of Santa Croce, and the choir of the Badia
(Benedictine abbey).
The structural and decorative elements of Santa Croce and the Duomo
have a unity, balance, and a lightness of movement that demonstrate
Arnolfo’s complete mastery of the late 13th-century Gothic architectural
vocabulary. His sculptures have a strong sense of volume that shows the
influence on him of antique Roman models.
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Tomb of Cardinal de Braye, after 1282. Marble. San Domenico, Orvieto
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Tomb of Cardinal de Braye, after 1282. Marble. San Domenico, Orvieto
(details)
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Tomb of Cardinal de Braye, after 1282. Marble. San Domenico, Orvieto
(details)
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Tomb of Cardinal Annibaldi della Molara (detail). 1276. Marble.
Cloister of San Giovanni Laterano, Rome
Arnolfo di Cambio.
St Joseph Sleeping. Marble. Cathedral, Orvieto
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Ciborium. 1283. Marble, with polychromatic incrustations. San Paolo
fuori le Mura, Rome
Arnolfo di Cambio.
Ciborium (detail). 1283. Marble, with polychromatic incrustations. San
Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
Tomb of Boniface VIII. 1294-96. Marble, height 120 cm, width 95 cm, depth
35 cm.Musei Vaticani, Rome
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
Tomb of Boniface VIII (details). 1294-96. Marble. Musei Vaticani, Rome
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
The Statue of Saint Peter. c. 1300. Bronze. Treasury of San Pietro,
Vatican
Arnolfo di Cambio.
St Reparata. c. 1310. Marble, height 174 cm. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo,
Florence
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
Tabernacle. 1293. Marble. Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
Tabernacle. 1293. Marble. Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome (detail)
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
Tabernacle. 1293. Marble. Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome (detail)
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Arnolfo di Cambio.
Presepio. Marble. Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Madonna and Child. c. 1310. Marble, height 173 cm. Museo dell'Opera
del Duomo, Florence
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Madonna. c. 1310. Marble, height 174 cm. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo,
Florence
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Dormition of the Virgin. 1296-1302. Marble. Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Thirsting Woman. 1281. Marble. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria,
Perugia
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Arnolfo di Cambio. Thirsty Woman. 1281. Marble. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria,
Perugia
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