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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. While the design of the Church of
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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.
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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
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for the Duomo in Siena Cathedral (1265–1268), but he soon began to work independently on an important tomb sculpture. In 1266–1267 he worked in Rome for King
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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
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has been attributed to Arnolfo, this is highly disputed. Vasari also attributed to him the urban plan of the new city of
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Arnolfo's biography is complicated by lingering uncertainties as to whether "Arnolfo di Cambio", born in
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The name "Arnolfo di Lapo" by which he is mentioned in some sources was an invention by his biographer
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The traditional date of 1302 has been recently discovered to be wrong. See Tomasi, 2007.
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In 1294–1295 he worked in Florence, mainly as an architect. According to his biographer
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Gardner, Julian (March 1972). "The Tomb of Cardinal Annibaldi by Arnolfo di Cambio".
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History of Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Throughout Europe
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The Art of Building in Ancient and Modern Times, Or, Architecture Illustrated
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in 1300, and designed the sixth city wall around Florence (1284–1333).
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in Rome, not to mention "Arnolfus Architectus" who signed the tomb of
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Tomasi, Michele (February 2007). "Lo stil novo del Gotico italiano".
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is traditionally attributed to him, but this is often doubted. .
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Monument of Pope Boniface VIII, Vatican crypt (Grotte Vaticane)
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
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Detail of the tomb of Riccardo Cardinal Annibaldi, at
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Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Arnolfo in his
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Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology
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He signed the wall tomb of Cardinal 757: 582: 197:, including an enthroned Madonna (a 558:(Oxford: Blackwell) 1973:14 note 2. 127:, who began as a lead assistant to 13: 14: 936: 850: 479:, is often attributed to Arnolfo. 306: 177:’s chief assistant on the marble 570:L'Estetica Dantesca del Dualismo 466:(who died 1282) – San Domenico, 401: 386: 371: 355: 915:13th-century Italian architects 890:People from Colle di Val d'Elsa 779: 751: 714: 669: 640: 631: 597: 311: 920:13th-century Italian sculptors 576: 561: 548: 539: 530: 521: 512: 503: 490: 1: 700:10.1016/S0304-4181(99)00012-3 443: 214:In Rome Arnolfo had seen the 113: 100: 568:Lombardi, Giancarlo (2022). 483: 348: 342:Saint Paul Outside the Walls 145: 131:. 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Index

Colle di Val d'Elsa
Florence

Cardinal de Braye
Orvieto
Italian architect
Duecento
Nicola Pisano
Florence Cathedral
Colle Val d'Elsa
ciboria
San Paolo fuori le Mura
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Pope Boniface VIII
Nicola Pisano
Siena Cathedral Pulpit
Charles I of Anjou
Campidoglio
Guillaume de Braye
San Domenico in Orvieto
Maestà
Abundantia
tiara
Cosmatesque
intarsia
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
presepio
Santa Maria Maggiore
Santa Maria in Aracoeli

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