Matteo Civitali
Matteo Civitali (born May 5, 1436 in Lucca ; † October 12, 1501 ibid) was an Italian sculptor and painter of the Renaissance .
Life
Matteo Civitali came from a family of Friulian origin with a military tradition. He worked as a painter, sculptor (marble, wood and terracotta) and military engineer. Civitali became famous with the execution of the tomb for Pietro da Noceto ( Tomba di Pietro da Noceto ) in the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca. The tomb was completed in 1472.
The only picture that is known for certain that it comes from Matteo Civitali is the triptych Madonna with Child and Saints (Madonna col Bambino e Santi), executed in the years 1467–1469. The altar is now in Greenville , USA . He carried out practically all of the pictures together with Baldassarre di Biagio .
Due to the success with the tomb for Pietro da Noceto, Domenico Bertini became a patron and patron of Civitalis. Bertini spent large sums of money on the beautification of the Lucca cathedral; Matteo Civitali became the preferred artist. Matteo Civitali's success was not limited to Lucca, he also worked on 22 altars in the Cathedral of Pisa .
Civitali designed fortifications for the city of Sarzana .
Paintings and sculptures
- Madonna and Child (part of the Prato , originally monastery of S. Vincenco e S. Caterina dè Ricci)
- Sculpture Mourning Angel (Angeli adoranti), Lucca Cathedral
- Sarzana fortress
literature
- Frida Schottmüller : Civitali, Matteo di Giovanni . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 23–28 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Stella Rudolph: CIVITALI, Matteo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982.
- Martina Harms [-Lückerath]: Matteo Civitali. Sculptor of the early Renaissance in Lucca (= contributions to the history of art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Volume 1 ). 1st edition. Rhema, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-930454-00-9 (also dissertation at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 1991).
Web links
- Matteo Civitali e il suo tempo ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- comune.sarzana.org
- fortezzadisarzanello.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Civitali, Matteo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor and painter of the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1436 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucca |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1501 |
| Place of death | Lucca |