Anselmo da Campione

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Anselmo da Campione: Rood screen in Modena Cathedral, around 1170, (detail)

Anselmo da Campione (* before 1160 in Campione d'Italia ) was an Italian sculptor of the early Gothic , whose work can be documented from 1160 to the beginning of the 13th century. Anselmo probably received his training in Arles in France and then worked for the construction works of Modena Cathedral in Italy. There he is said to have designed the transept from 1160 and then from 1170 the rood screen and the reliefs of the crypt.

Anselmo is one of the first of the Campionesian masters (it. Magistri Campionesi), he is one of the forerunners of these sculptors, stonemasons and architects of the 13th and 14th centuries, all from Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave in the Swiss Lombardy , came from. Its name da Campione was given because of its origin, but it does not represent a family name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saverio LOMARTIRE: I Campionesi al Duomo di Modena . In: Rossana Bossaglia, Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua (Ed.): I Maestri Campionesi. Bergamo 1992, pp. 36-81

literature

  • Arthur Kingsley Porter: Lombard Architecture . New Haven 1917
  • Pietro Toesca : Storia dell'arte italiana . Turin 1951
  • Corrado Ricci: Manuals di storia dell'arte . Bergamo 1957
  • Touring Club Italiano (ed.): L'arte nel Medio Evo I . Milan 1964
  • R. Bossaglia, GA Dell'Acqua (ed.): I maestri campionesi . Bergamo 1992
  • Gianfranco Malafarina (Ed.): Il duomo di Modena . Modena 2003
personal data
SURNAME Anselmo da Campione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1160
PLACE OF BIRTH Campione d'Italia
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century