Paolo Romano (sculptor)

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Paolo Romano, portrait from the Vasari edition of 1568

Paolo Romano , also Paolo di Mariano , Paolo Taccone , Paolo di Mariano di Tuccio Tacconi da Sezze (* around 1412 in Sezze ( Latium ), † after 1470 in Rome ), was an Italian sculptor . He is one of the most ambitious sculptors of his time.

life and work

Tympanum of the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Rome - OPUS PAULI

Paolo Romano is considered to be the most ingenious implementer of papal commissions in the field of sculpture at the time of Pius II; he was the only local master who gained such importance in the course of the Quattrocento that Giorgio Vasari honored him with a biography. Vasari uses part of Paolo Romano's vita to describe a rivalry with a maestro Mino scultore , the otherwise unknown Mino del Reame, which Paolo Romano won in a kind of competition. Paolo was accepted into the papal family by Pope Pius II . Giancristoforo Romano , son of Isaia da Pisa , possibly one of Andrea Bregno's students , created an epigram on him in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli , which was removed under Pope Clement VIII .

Works (selection)

Apostle Paul, Angel Bridge
Portrait bust of Pope Paul II. Palazzo Venezia

Most of the works can be assigned based on the accounts with Paolo di Mariano da Sezze .

  • The left, of the two angels bearing the coat of arms, in the tympanum of the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Rome (1450); signed OPUS PAULI.
  • Three marble window frames for the Senatorial Palace on the Capitol in Rome by order of Pope Nicholas V (1451)
  • Two chapels on the Angel's Bridge (1451)
  • Collaboration on the triumphal arch of Castel Nuovo in Naples together with Isaia da Pisa (1453–1458)
  • Colossal statues of the apostles Peter and Paul by order of Pope Pius II intended for the two sides of the staircase leading to St. Peter's Church (1461–1462) - today in the Papal Palace .
  • Statue of St. Andrew in the antiquated temple on the Milvian Bridge , where the Pope solemnly received the relic of the apostle's skull on Pentecost Sunday in 1462.
  • Bust of Pope Pius II (1463) - now in the Vatican Museum
  • Benediction pulpit on the steps of St. Peter's Church (1463)
  • Collaboration on the reliquary tabernacle of the apostle Andrew in St. Peter's Church (1463)
  • Bust of Pope Paul II in the Palazzo Venezia
  • Colossal statue of the Apostle Paul (1463/1464) for the landing of the Apostles Basilica - today on the Angel's Bridge (supplemented by the sword)
  • Altar in the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura (1467)
  • Funerary monument for Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan in the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso (1467)
  • Relief representation of the equestrian figure Sigismondo Malatesta - today in the Louvre, Paris (completed posthumously in 1484)
  • Grave monument for Pope Pius II in St. Peter together with four other sculptors, as Vasari mentions - today in the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle

literature

  • Filippo Lombardini: Paolo Taccone, scultore del secolo XV . Meloni, Sezze 1889 ( digitized version ).
  • Simona Cesari: Magister Paulus. Uno scultore tra XIV e XV secolo . Edilazio, Rome 2001, ISBN 88-87485-24-0 .
  • Carlo la Bella: La scuola scultorea romana del secondo Quattrocento: il Ciborio degli Apostoli e il monumento a Paolo III; due esempi di scultura in Vaticano. In: La forma del Rinascimento. Donatello, Andrea Bregno, Michelangelo e la scultura a Roma nel Quattrocento. Rubinetto, Soveria Mannelli 2010, ISBN 978-88-498-2772-9 , pp. 151-158.
  • Thomas Pöpper: Sculptures for the Papacy , 2010, Plöttner Verlag Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-938442-86-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giorgio Vasari: Le vite de 'più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue, insino a' tempi nostri (Edizione Torrentino, Firenze 1550) . Einaudi, Turin 1991, ISBN 978-88-06-17755-3 , p. 382ff.
  2. ↑ The two angels in the tympanum of the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli; the one on the left bears the inscription OPUS PAULI, the one on the left OPUS MINI.
  3. ↑ magister Paulus marmorarius unus familiaris .
  4. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 9f.
  5. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 10.
  7. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 13f.
  8. ^ Carlo la Bella: La scuola scultorea romana del secondo Quattrocento
  9. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 13.
  10. ^ Carlo la Bella: La scuola scultorea romana del secondo Quattrocento
  11. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 14.
  12. ↑ Filippo Lombardini, p. 14f.

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personal data
SURNAME Romano, Paolo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES di Mariano di Tuccio Tacconi da Sezze, Paolo (real name); di Mariano, Paolo; Taccone, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1412
PLACE OF BIRTH Sezze
DATE OF DEATH after 1470
Place of death Rome