Arnolfo di Cambio - Selected works, Sculpture

Italian sculptor and architect, the designer of Florence Cathedral. A pupil of Nicola Pisano, he worked on his master's shrine of S Dominic, Bologna, and the pulpit at Siena before going to Rome in 1277. His tomb of Cardinal de Braye at Orvieto set the style for wall-tombs for more than a century. The remains of his sculptural decoration for Florence Cathedral are in the cathedral museum.

Arnolfo di Lapo, also known as Arnolfo di Cambio, (1245 - 1310) was a Florentine architect and sculptor.

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 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.

The monumental character of Arnolfo's work has left its mark on the appearance of Florence.

Selected works

Architecture

Church of Santa Croce, Florence Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

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)