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Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240 – 1300/1310) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
.

lfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany
Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence.Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy....
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He was Nicola Pisano
Nicola Pisano

Nicola Pisano was an Italy sculpture whose work is noted for its classical Ancient Rome sculptural style. Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture....
’s chief assistant on the marble pulpit
Pulpit

File:Convento Cristo Decemebr 2008-18.jpgA pulpit is a small elevated platform from which a member of the clergy delivers a Sermon in a house of worship....
 for the Duomo in Siena
Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site....
 (1265-1268), but he soon began to work independently on an important tomb sculpture.






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Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240 – 1300/1310) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
.

Biography

Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany
Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence.Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy....
.

Arnolfo Di Cambio, Riccardo Degli Annibaldi Tomb
He was Nicola Pisano
Nicola Pisano

Nicola Pisano was an Italy sculpture whose work is noted for its classical Ancient Rome sculptural style. Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture....
’s chief assistant on the marble pulpit
Pulpit

File:Convento Cristo Decemebr 2008-18.jpgA pulpit is a small elevated platform from which a member of the clergy delivers a Sermon in a house of worship....
 for the Duomo in Siena
Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site....
 (1265-1268), but he soon began to work independently on an important tomb sculpture. In 1266-1267 he worked in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 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
Orvieto

Orvieto is a city in southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe, rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone....
, including a Madonna which he created by converting an ancient Roman statue of the goddess Abundantia
Abundantia

This article is about the Rome goddess. For the Christian saint, see Saint Abundantia.Abundantia was the Roman mythology goddess of good fortune, abundance and prosperity....
. In Rome Arnolfo had seen the Cosmatesque
Cosmatesque

Cosmatesque style is a style of floor-making typical of Medieval era Italy, and especially of Rome and its surroundings. The name derives from Cosmati, one of the groups of marble craftsmen who created works by taking marble from ancient Roman ruins, and arranging the fragments in geometrical decorations....
 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 Cecilia in Trastevere
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th century Churches of Rome Rome, located in the Trastevere rioni of Rome and devoted to Saint Cecilia....
, where he worked in 1285 and 1293 respectively. In this period he also worked on the presepio of Santa Maria Maggiore, on Santa Maria in Aracoeli
Santa Maria in Aracoeli

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven is a titulus basilica in churches of Rome, located on the highest summit of the Campidoglio. It is still the designated Church of the Italian Senate and the Roman people ....
, on the monument of Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII , born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303....
 (1300) and on the bronze statue of St. Peter in St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica

The Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian language as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City....
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In 1294-1295 he worked in Florence, mainly as an architect. According to his biographer Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
, he was in charge of construction of the cathedral
Santa Maria del Fiore

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic architecture style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi....
 of the city, for which he provided the statues once decorating the lower part of the façade destroyed in 1589. The surviving statues are now in the Museum of the Cathedral. Also attributed to Arnolfo is the design of the Church of Santa Croce
Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze

The Basilica di Santa Croce is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 metres south east of the Santa Maria del Fiore....
. Vasari also attributed to him the urban plan of the new city of San Giovanni Valdarno
San Giovanni Valdarno

San Giovanni Valdarno is a town with a population of about 17,000 in the Italian province of Arezzo. As indicated by its name ?Valdarno? it is located in the valley of the Arno River....
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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
Funerary art

Funerary art is any work of art forming or placed in a repository for the remains of the death. Tomb is a general term for the repository, while grave goods are objects—other than the primary human remains—which have been placed inside....
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Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Arnolfo in his Lives of the Artists.

Selected works

Arnolfo Di Cambio Tabernacle of Stjohnlateran

Architecture

  • Old basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore
    Santa Maria del Fiore

    The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic architecture style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi....
    , Florence
    Florence

    Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....


Sculpture

  • Monument to Pope Adrian V
    Pope Adrian V

    Pope Adrian V , born Ottobuono de' Fieschi, was Pope in 1276....
     (1276) - San Francesco
    Viterbo

    Viterbo is an ancient city and comune in the Latium region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo. It is approximately 100 kilometers north of Rome on the Via Cassia, and it is surrounded by the Monti Cimini and Monti Volsini....
    , Viterbo
    Viterbo

    Viterbo is an ancient city and comune in the Latium region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo. It is approximately 100 kilometers north of Rome on the Via Cassia, and it is surrounded by the Monti Cimini and Monti Volsini....
  • Monument to Riccardo Cardinal Annibaldi (1276) - San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Statue of Charles I of Anjou (1277) - Campidoglio, Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Fountain of the Thirsty People (Fontana Minore) - Perugia
    Perugia

    Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city symbol is the griffin, which can be seen in the form of plaques and statues on buildings around the city....
  • Tomb of Cardinal Guillaume de Braye (c. 1282) - San Domenico, Orvieto
    Orvieto

    Orvieto is a city in southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe, rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone....
  • Monument of Pope Boniface VIII - the Museum of the Opera del Duomo - Florence


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