| Arnolfo
Di Cambio (b.ca. 1245, Colle di Valdelse, d. ca. 1310, Firenze) |
| Italian sculptor and architect. Assistant to Nicola Pisano both on the shrine of S. Dominic in Bologna and the pulpit at Siena. His statue of Charles of Anjou (before 1277) is the first modern portrait statue by a known artist and the design of his wall tomb of Cardinal de Braye (the cardinal lies on a bier beneath the Madonna and Child in glory) was a model for over a century Arnolfo was an architect of the cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore and the church of S. Croce, both Florence, and also carved the sculptural decoration on the cathedral façade. |