Pietro Cavallini
Pietro Cavallini (2nd half of the 13th century, † around 1330) was an Italian painter who worked in Rome and Naples at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries . He made mosaics in the style of the cosmats and in his frescoes he adhered to the Byzantine manner, which was animated by a fresher feeling for nature. In 1308 Cavallini was serving the king in Naples. This is the only documented date of the Vita Cavallinis.
Life
Recently, the Italian restorer Bruno Zanardi has expressed his doubts about Giotto's authorship for the famous frescoes in the upper church of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi . He considers Pietro Cavallini to be the creator of the Francesco frescoes. Zanardi was busy restoring the frescoes for almost ten years.
Cavallini's frescoes in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere were restored in 2001 and are now seen in a new context. The tendency of recent research seems to be that the position of Rome in comparison to Florence and other cities in Tuscany is becoming increasingly important. In many old churches, significant frescoes are found under the plaster. The old claim that Rome was a simple province at that time, around 1300, is increasingly proving to be wrong.
Works
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere , Rome
- The Last Judgment , 320 × 1400 cm, fresco
Santa Maria in Trastevere , Rome
- Annunciation , 1291, mosaic
- Birth of Christ , 1291, mosaic
- Birth of the Virgin , 1291
San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
- Crucifixion , 1308, fresco,
literature
- Giorgio Vasari : The life of Cimabue, Giotto and Pietro Cavallini. Newly translated into German by Victoria Lorini. Ed., Commented on, introduced by Fabian Jonietz and Anna Magnago Lampugnani. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8031-5064-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel 33/1997, p. 153.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cavallini, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1250 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1330 |
| Place of death | Rome |