Death and Commemoration I:Italy

Tombs of Saints

Slide 1: N. Pisano w/shop, Arca di S. Domenico (c.1264). Bologna, S. Domenico
Pisano_Nicola_Arca_di_S_Domenico_Bologna_1264

Slide 2: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Pietro Martire (1339). Milan, S. Eustorgio
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Slide 3: N. Pisano, Arca di S. Dom., lower part (Pope-Hennessy reconstruction)(image not found)
Slide 4: N. Pisano w/shop, Arca di S. Domenico, det. caryatid (London, V&A)
Pisano_Nicola_Statuette_caryatid_Tomb_S_Domenico_c1270

Slide 5: N. Pisano w/shop, Arca di S. Domenico, det., Madonna & Child(image not found)
Slide 6: N. Pisano w/shop, Arca di S. Domenico, det., Burning of the Books(image not found)
Slide 7: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Pietro Martire, det. Funeral of St P.M.
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1335-39, marble, S. Eustorgio, Milan

Giovani da Balduccio was an expatriate Tuscan from Pisa who carried the Tuscan Gothic to Bologna and Milan. His main work in Milan is the shrine of St Peter Martyr. It was modelled on the shrine of St Dominic made at Bologna by the workshop of Nicola Pisano in 1260-65. Giovanni da Balduccio, however, made a number of Gothic improvements including the addition to the lid of a fine Gothic tabernacle.

Slide 8: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Pietro Martire(image not found)
Slide 9: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Pietro Martire, det., Hope(image not found)
Slide 10: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Pietro Martire, det. head of Justice(image not found)
Slide 11: Tino di Camaino, Altar of S. Ranierino (c. 1310). Pisa, Museo dell’Opera
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Slide 12: Tino di Camaino, Altar of S. Ranierino (c. 1310), det. predella(image not found)
Slide 13: Goro di Gregorio, Arca di S. Cerbone (1324). Massa Marittima, Duomo
Goro_di_Gregorio_Arca_di_S_Cerbone_1324

Slide 14: Goro di Gregorio, Arca di S. Cerbone, det., curing pilgrims(image not found)
Slide 15: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Agostino (c. 1340). Pavia, S. Pietro in Ciel d’Oro
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Slide 16: G. di Balduccio, Arca di S. Agostino, detail(image not found)

Tombs of Popes

Slide 17: Roman, Tomb of Cardinal Fieschi (d.1256). Rome, S. Lorenzo f.l.Mura(image not found)
Slide 18: Pietro Oderisi, Tomb of Pope Clement IV (d.1268). Viterbo, S. Francesco
Oderisi_Tomb_Pope_Clement_IV_1268

Slide 19: Pietro Oderisi, Tomb of Pope Clement IV, detail, head of effigy(image not found)
Slide 20: A. di Cambio w/shop, Tomb of Pope Adrian V. Viterbo, S. Francesco(image not found)
Slide 21: A. di Cambio w/shop, Tomb of Pope Adrian V, det., head of effigy A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye (d.1282). Orvieto, S. Dom.(image not found)
Slide 22: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, Romanini reconstr.
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Arnolfo di Cambio, a contemporary of Giovanni, was Nicola Pisano’s chief assistant on the Siena pulpit. After its completion in 1268, he worked on the Pisano shrine of St Dominic in S. Domenico, Bologna, leaving the shop to work independently in Perugia and Rome around 1270. His sculpture fuses the art of Nicola, the antique and the traditions of medieval Rome in a distinctive manner. Arnolfo played a seminal role in creating the trecento sepulchral monument. A case in point is the very mutilated and badly reconstructed tomb of the French cardinal De Braye, who died in 1282. This tomb was moved and, in its present form, lacks a unifying Gothic architectural tabernacle. Its majestic, enthroned Madonna, taken from a Classical goddess, presides over the heavenly realm. Below, flanking the central inscription, are two saints, one of whom (probably St Mark, the deceased’s patron saint) presents the kneeling cardinal to the Virgin. Arnolfo has monumentalized the funeral portrait, taken from the French tradition, wherein the deceased is also shown alive. Directly below is the tomb chamber whose side curtains are being drawn by two deacons/angels to reveal the recumbent effigy. Below this area is a sarcophagus (not a recycled antique one as in other contemporary tombs) with columns and a base heavily decorated in cosmati work (polychromatic mosaic inlay named after a Roman family associated with its inception and popularity), a feature running like a leitmotif through the monument.

Slide 23: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, Dixon reconstr.(image not found)
Slide 24: L. Maitani, Tomb of Pope Benedict XI (c. 1320). Perugia, S. Domenico(image not found)
Slide 25: L. Maitani, Tomb of Pope Benedict XI, det., deacon(image not found)
Slide 26: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, det., LH deacon(image not found)
Slide 27: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, det., effigy + deacons(image not found)
Slide 28: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, det., LH deacon(image not found)
Slide 29: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, det., RH deacon(image not found)
Slide 30: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal 0. de Braye, det. de Braye + St Mark(image not found)
Slide 31: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Cardinal G. de Braye, det., Madonna and Child(image not found)
Slide 32: Anon., Tomb of Giangaetano Orsini (d. 1294). Assisi, Lower Church(image not found)
Slide 33: Anon. (Ramo di Paganello?), Tomb of John of Brienne (1320s). Assisi, Lower Ch.(image not found)
Slide 34: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Riccardo Annibaldi, det., frieze of acolytes after A. di Cambio, Tomb of R. Annibaldi (d. 1289). Rome, S. G. in Lat.
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Slide 35: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Riccardo Annibaldi, det. acolytes(image not found)
Slide 36: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Riccardo Annibaldi, det. acolyte.(image not found)
Slide 37: after A. di Cambio, Tomb of Pope Bomface VIII Cc. 1295)(image not found)
Slide 38: A. di Cambio, Tomb of Pope B’face VIII, det., effigy. Rome, Grotte Vat.(image not found)

Tombs of Prelates

Slide 39: Tino di Camaino, Tomb of Card. R. Petroni (d. 1314). Siena, Duomo
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Slide 40: Tino di Camaino, Tomb of Card. R. Petroni, det., caryatid(image not found)
Slide 41: Tino di Camaino, Tomb of Card. R. Petroni, det., Resurrection(image not found)
Slide 42: Duccio, Nativity + Prophets. Washington, NGA(image not found)
Slide 43: Ugolino da Siena, Resurrection, London, NG(image not found)
Slide 44: Tino di Camaino, Tomb of Card. R. Petroni, det., Noli me Tangere(image not found)
Slide 45: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Bish. G. della Torre, det., Noli me Tangere(image not found)
Slide 46: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Bish. G. della Torre (d. 1318). Florence, S. Croce(image not found)
Slide 47: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Bish. A. Orso (d. 1320). Florence, Duomo T. di Camaino, Tomb of Bish. A. Orso, Valentiner reconstr.(image not found)
Slide 48: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Bish. A. Orso, Kreytenberg reconstr.(image not found)
Slide 49: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Bish. A. Orso, det., Bishop Orso(image not found)

Tombs of Kings

Slide 50: G. Pisano, Tomb of Margaret. of Luxemburg (d. 1311), Seidel reconstr.(image not found)
Slide 51: G. Pisano, Tomb of M. of Luxemburg, det., Genoa, Pal Bianco(image not found)
Slide 52: G. Pisano, Tomb of M. of Luxemburg, det., Justice
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Slide 53: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Emp. Henry VII (d. 1313), Kreytenberg rec’str.(image not found)
Slide 54: Pisa, Duomo, interior to east(image not found)
Slide 55: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Emp. Henry VII, effigy + bier. Pisa, Duomo(image not found)
Slide 56: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Henry VII, det., Henry VII. Pisa, Museo dell’O(image not found)
Slide 57: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Henry VII, det., counsellor. Pisa, Museo dell’O.(image not found)
Slide 58: T. di Camaino, Tomb of Henry VII, det., counsellors. Pisa, Museo dell’O.(image not found)
Slide 59: M. Romano, Tomb of B. degli Arrighieri (c. 1312). Casole d’Elsa,(image not found)
Slide 60: A. di Giovanni, Tomb of Bish. G. Tarlati (d. 1328). Arezzo, Duomo(image not found)
Slide 61: A. di Giovanni, Tomb of Bish. G. Tarlati, det., ‘made Bishop'(image not found)
Slide 62: A. di Giovanni, Tomb of Bish. G. Tarlati, det., ‘comune in Signoria'(image not found)
Slide 63: G. & P. da Firenze, Tomb of Robert of Anjou (1343-8). Naples, S. Chiara(image not found)
Slide 64: G. & P. da Firenze, Tomb of Robert of Anjou, upper levels(image not found)
Slide 65: G. & P. da Firenze, Tomb of Robert of Anjou, lower level(image not found)

Tombs of Others

Slide 66: A. di Giovanni, Tomb of Cino Sigibuldi (d. 1337). Pistoia, Duomo(image not found)
Slide 67: G. di Balduccio, Baroncelli family tomb (C. 1328). Florence, S. Croce(image not found)
Slide 68: G. di Balduccio, Bardi family tomb (c. 1330). Florence, Sta. Croce(image not found)
Slide 69: G. di B. & Maso di Banco, Bardi di Vemio tmb (1335-45).Flor., S. Croce(image not found)

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