Ugo da Campione

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Ugo da Campione (attributed to): Tomb of Cardinal Guglielmo Longhi, around 1308, Bergamo

Ugo da Campione (* before 1300, Campione d'Italia , † around 1358/1360) was an Italian sculptor of the early Gothic .

Life

Ugo da Campione came from Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave in the Swiss Lombardy . He is one of Campione champion (it. Magistri Campionesi), one under this provisional names combined group of medieval sculptors, masons and architects of the 13th and 14th centuries, all of which came from Campione d'Italia. His name da Campione was given because of its origin, but it does not represent a family name.

Ugo da Campione worked in Lombardy. Among other things, the tomb of the bishop of Brescia Berardo de 'Maggi, who died in 1308 and is now in the New New Cathedral of Brescia, is assigned to him as an early work , and he is said to have the tomb of Cardinal Guglielmo Longhi, who died in 1319, in Bergamo Church of Santa Maria Maggiore .

The first name of Ugo da Campione is known to posterity because it is mentioned as the father of Giovanni di Ugo da Campione, who also became a sculptor. The father's name is passed down through inscriptions relating to the work of his son, who worked in Bergamo until 1360. Ugo is said to have been involved in works in Bergamo that his son can be shown to have created, namely on the reliefs created around 1340 for the baptistery there and on figures that Giovanni created around 1351 for a portal of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Ugo da Campione would then have died between 1358 and 1360. His style, still reminiscent of Romanesque models, is at the beginning of the development of the Gothic style of the Campionese.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergamo, Biblioteca civica, Archivio del Consorzio della Misericordia maggiore di Bergamo (MIA), mss. 845. A. Gotthold Meyer: Lombard monuments of the fourteenth century. Giovanni di Balduccio da Pisa and the Campionese. A contribution to the history of northern Italian sculpture . Stuttgart 1893, p. 53.
  2. ↑ Campionesi . In: Colum Hourihane (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 2, Oxford 2012, p. 498.

literature

  • A. Gotthold Meyer: Lombard monuments of the fourteenth century. Giovanni di Balduccio da Pisa and the Campionese. A contribution to the history of northern Italian sculpture . Stuttgart 1893, p. 53f.
  • A. Gotthold Meyer: Campione, Ugo there . In: Carl Braun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . 1st volume. Frauenfeld 1905, p. 261f.
  • Karl Woermann: History of art of all times and peoples . Third volume: The art of early Christian times and the Middle Ages . Leipzig 1918, p. 495
  • Campionesi . In: Colum Hourihane (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 2, Oxford 2012, pp. 497-499.

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SURNAME Ugo da Campione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor of the early Gothic
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Campione d'Italia
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century