Francesco Laurana
Francesco Laurana ( Croatian Franjo Vranjanin ; * 1430 in Vrana near Zadar , Dalmatia , † 1502 in Avignon ) was an Italian sculptor , architect , painter and medalist of Croatian origin.
Life
Laurana was in the then Venetian Dalmatia born and entered in 1455 for the first time in Naples in appearance, where he presumably mediated by Pietro da Milano and as his assistant at the Arch of Castelnuovo for King Alfonso V worked. Laurana later worked in Provence and from 1467 to 1472 in Sicily , where he specialized in the production of portrait busts . He became famous here with his bust of Eleanor of Aragon and the Mastrantonio Chapel in the Church of San Francesco d'Assisi in Palermo, which Pietro de Bonitate helped create . He often worked on the same projects as Domenico Gagini , whom he knew from his work in Naples. From 1472 to 1475 he went back to Naples, but the last years of his life he spent in southern France, where he built the St. Lazare chapel in Marseille and made sculptures in Avignon . Laurana was a pioneer of Renaissance sculpture in Naples and France . The best known are his female busts.
Working in France
In Avignon in Provence, the city of Petrarch , where the poet lived and loved Laura from afar, a hundred years after Petrarch's death there was much talk of him and Laura. It is possible that Francesco Laurana was asked in Avignon to create an ideal image of women after Laura. The artistic Renaissance hairnet and the paleness of the female sculpture, which shines from the inside, give clues to the connection.
literature
- Leonard Forrer : Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Volume 3, London 1907, pp. 339-343 ( digitized version ).
- Frida Schottmüller : Laurana, Francesco . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 440-442 .
- Hanno-Walter Kruft : Francesco Laurana. An early Renaissance sculptor. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-38653-9 .
- Chrysa Damianaki: The female portrait busts of Francesco Laurana . Vecchiarelli, Rome 2000, ISBN 88-8247-048-2 .
- Renata Novak Klemenčič: Laurana, Francesco. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64: Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
- David Alberto Murolo: Storie della Vrana: destini incrociati tra arte e guerra: Luciano e Francesco Laurana, Giovanni Vrana, Yusuf Maskovic . REMEL, Ancona 2016 OPAC SBN .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laurana, Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1430 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vrana near Zadar , Dalmatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1502 |
| Place of death | Avignon |