Matteo Civitali
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Matteo Civitali (1436-1502) was an Italian sculptor and architect, painter[1] and engineer, who was the leading artistic personality of the Early Renaissance in Lucca, where he was born and where most of his work remains. He was trained in Florence, where Antonio Rossellino and Mino da Fiesole influenced his mature style.
His free-standing chapel, the "tempietto", built in 1484 to enshrine the Holy Face of Lucca, stands in the transept of the Cathedral of San Martino, Lucca. The Duomo contains a virtual anthology of Matteo's sculpture.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The only known painting attributed to Matteo, a triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints Michael Archangel, John the Baptist, Biagio and Peter, executed in 1467-69, was loaned to the 2004 exhibition.
[edit] References
- "Matteo Civitali and his time" Exhibition, Villa Guinigi, Lucca, 2004.
- Harms, Martina, Matteo Civitali, Bildhauer der Fruhrenaissance in Lucca (Beitrage zur Kunstgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, 1) Munich: Rhema-Verlag, 1995. ISBN 3-930454-00-9. Comprehensive monograph.
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