Arnolfo di Cambio
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Arnolfo di Lapo, also known as Arnolfo di Cambio, (1245 - 1310) was a Florentine architect and sculptor.
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[edit] Biography
Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany.
He was Nicola Pisano’s chief assistant on the marble pulpit for the Duomo in Siena (1265-1268), but he soon began to work independently on important tomb sculpture. In 1266-67 he worked in Rome for King Charles I of Anjou, portraying him in the famous statue housed in the Campidoglio. Around 1282 he finished the monument to Cardinal de Braye in the church of San Domenico in Orvieto, for which he modified an antique Roman statue of the Abundance. In Rome Arnolfo had known by the Cosmatesque art, and its influence can be seen in the intarsio and polychrome glass decorations in the churches of San Paolo fuori le Mura and Santa Maria in Trastevere, where he worked in 1285 and 1293, respectively. In this period he also worked to the presepio of Santa Maria Maggiore, to Santa Maria in Aracoeli, to the monument of Pope Boniface VIII (1300) and the bronze statue of St. Peter in St. Peter's Basilica.
In the 1294-1295 he worked in Florence, mainly as architecture. Vasari's claim that he he was in charge of construction of the cathedral of the city has been later proved as false. More general agreements have received to attribution to him of the Church of Santa Croce and the Palazzo Vecchio. Vasari attributed him also the urban plan of the new city of San Giovanni Valdarno.
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 includes a biography of Arnolfo in his Lives of the Artists.
[edit] Selected works
[edit] Architecture
- Church of Santa Croce, Florence
- Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
[edit] Sculpture
- Arnolfo di Cambio in the "History of Art"
- Monument to Pope Adrian V (1276) - San Francesco, Viterbo
- Monument to Riccardo Cardinal Annibaldi (1276) - San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
- Statue of Charles I of Anjou (1277) - Campidoglio, Rome
- Fountain of the Thirsty People (Fontana Minore) - Perugia
- Tomb of Cardinal de Braye (c. 1282) - San Domenico, Orvieto
- Monument of pope Boniface VIII - the Museum of the Opera del Duomo - Florence)
