Gothic Sculpture

Description: Marble. Detail of the column-bearing lion at the base of the Angevin mausoleum.

Polychrome marble, height cm 91. Statue made around 1345 for the church of Santa Caterina when Nino, together with his father Andrea, was working there on the Saltarelli tomb.

Marble, height cm 463. This is the first signed work by the artist comissioned for the Baptistry in 1255 and completed in 1260.

Marble, height cm 56, details of the pulpit created by Nicola between 1255 and 1260 in which he based this allegory on the figure of Hercules.

Marble, detail of a panel of the pulpit, 1255-1260.

Marble, height cm 85, 1255-1260. Detail of one of the panels adorning the five faces of the pulpit parapet.

Marble, height cm 85. Detail of a panel adorning the pulpit parapet, 1255-1260.

Marble. Detail of a panel decorating the parapet of the pulpit, 1255-1260.

Marble, detail, height cm 132. The Siena pulpit was executed by Nicola between 1265 and 1268 with a group of assistants, including his son Giovanni, Arnolfo di Cambio and others, explicitly named in the contracts.

Marble, height cm 62. Detail of the pulpit, 1265-1268.

Marble, height cm 460. 1265-1268.

Marble, detail of a panel adorning the pulpit parapet, 1265-1268.

Marble, detail of a panel adorning the pulpit parapet, 1265-1268.

Marble, detail of a panel adorning the pulpit parapet, 1265-1268.

Marble and bronze, height of the figures cm 77. Detail of Nicola's last undertaking, on which he worked with his son Giovanni. The fountain, composed of a double tier of polygonal basins, is adorned with various allegorical figures. (with assistants)

Marble detail from a panel of the pulpit, 1265-68.

Stone, detail of one of the colossal figures that once adorned the exterior of the Pisa Baptistery and are now inside the same building. (with Giovanni)

Marble, height cm 153.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail of the funerary monument, now dismantled, dated about 1276.

Marble, detail of the funerary monument carved in San Domenico in Orvieto in 1282.

Marble, fragment from the Fountain of the Thirsty, 1281.

Marble, height cm 48.

Marble, height cm 35. Fragment of the Fountain of the Thirsty, 1281.

Marble, height cm 35.

Marble, height cm 160. Statue created for the King in Rome in 1277, like a portrait.

Bronze, detail. -

Marble with polychrome inlays. Detail of the Ciborium of San Paolo, dated 1285.

Marble with polychrome incrostations, details of the Ciborium in Santa Cecilia, 1293.

Marble, detail of one of the statues representing the Wise Men, the Prophets, the Apostles and the Sibyls that Giovanni made for the Cathedral façade, of whose works he became master builder in 1284.

Marble, detail of one of the statues made from 1284 onwards for the Cathedral façade.

Marble, detail of one of the statues of the prophets made from 1284 onwards for the Cathedral façade.

Marble, detail of a statue of the Wise Men made from 1284 onwards for the Cathedral façade.

Marble, detail of one of the statues made for the Cathedral façade, on which Giovanni worked from 1284, completing only the lower part of the façade.

Marble, height cm 455, one of the late pieces of work between 1297 and 1301.

Marble, detail of the pulpit, a late work by the master, dated between 1297 and 1301.

Marble, detail from the pulpit 1297-1301.

Marble, detail of a figure supporting the pulpit, 1297-1301.

Marble, detail of pulpit, 1297-1301.

Marble, detail of a panel adorning the pulpit parapet, made between 1297 and 1301.

Marble, height cm 84. Detail of a panel of the pulpit, 1294-1301.

Marble, height cm 461. One of Giovanni's later works, 1302-1310.

Marble, height cm 225. Supporting group representing allegoric figures created by Giovanni Pisano, following the designs of Matteo Falconi 1302-1310.

Marble, detail of the pulpit, 1302-1310. Allegoric figures supporting the pulpit.

Marble, supporting figure of the pulpit, 1302-1310.

Marble, detail of the pulpit, 1302-1310.

Marble, height cm 39, base of the central pillar of the pulpit made between 1302 and 1310. (school of)

Marble, height cm 47, detail of a panel of the pulpit, 1302-1310.

Marble, detail of the pulpit, 1302-1310.

Marble, detail of the pulpit, height cm 84, 1302-1310.

Marble, height cm 145. Fragment of the funerary monument made in Genoa in 1313 by Pisano for the late Margaret of Luxembourg, wife of Emperor Henry VII; here the deceased is shown being helped in her ascension by two angels.

Marble, height cm 185, 1305-1306.

Marble, detail of the Arca on which Nicola worked between 1264 and 1267. The master set out the design of the work, which was to be transformed and added to over the following three centuries (Michelangelo too added candle-bearing angels).

Detail of the Arca di San Domenico.

Marble, detail of the pulpit made about 1270.

Marble, detail of the figure of Henry VII, which perhaps formed part of the sculptural group of the mausoleum erected for the emperor in Pisa Cathedral between 1312 and 1315.

Marble, height cm 78. This Madonna belongs to the sculptor's maturity (about 1320) and is almost certainly to be identified with the one that crowned the monument of Bishop Orso, a signed work, today partially reassembled.

Marble, detail.

Marble, height of the portion cm 130, 1318, created in the Siena Cathedral where he was master builder with his father until 1320.

Marble, height cm 136, about 1321.

Marble, detail, about 1321.

Marble, height cm 132, after 1320. Detail of funeral monument which Tino created in the Florentine Cathedral after 1320.

Marble, detail, height of the figure cm 60. In 1323/24 Tino was called to Naples by the Angevin court as official architect and sculptor. There he made a series of funerary monuments for princes and feudal lords.

Marble with mosaic inlays, detail of the funerary monument commissioned from the artist in 1325 by the Neapolitan court for Maria, mother of Robert of Anjou.

Marble with mosaic inlays, detail, height cm 60, 1325.

Marble, detail of one of only two works attributed to the Sienese sculptor, both funerary monuments.

Marble, detail of the statue of the podestà of Casole d'Elsa.

Marble, 1330. Detail of one of the relief panels decorating the monument, depicting the feats of arms of the Ghibelline lord.

Marble, detail of the mausoleum of Cino de' Sinibaldi, dated about 1350.

Marble, height cm 37. Detail of the Arca of San Cerbone, dated 1324.

Marble, height cm 37. Detail of the Arca of San Cerbone, dated 1324.

Marble, height cm 37. Detail of the Arca of San Cerbone, dated 1324.

Marble, detail.

Polychrome marble, height cm 53.

Stone, height cm 50. Summoned from Siena to Orvieto in 1308, Maitani worked until his death as master builder of the Cathedral works; the façade follows his design and the sculptures adorning it are by his hand.

Stone, height cm 100. Detail of the decoration of the first pilaster of the Cathedral façade, 1310 - 1330.

Stone, height cm 35. Detail of the decoration of the Cathedral façade, 1310 - 1330.

Stone, height cm 50. Detail on the Cathedral façade carved by a master stonecutter working to Lorenzo Maitani's design between 1310 and 1330.

Stone, height of portion shown cm 40. Detail.

Stone, height cm 35. Detail of the epilogue of the history of humanity narrated on the Cathedral façade to Maitani's design with the collaboration of other masters between 1310 and 1330.

Wood, detail.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail of the pulpit with the Annunciation, executed before 1334, when the artist moved to Lombardy at the invitation of Azzone Visconti.

Marble, detail of one of the caryatids representing the Virtues that support the Arca of St. Peter Martyr, executed for the church of Sant'Eustorgio between 1335 and 1339 on commission from Azzone Visconti.

Marble, detail. Slab of Arca di San Pietro Martyr, 1335-1339, commissioned by Azzone Visconti.

Marble, detail of a panel of the Arca of St. Peter Martyr, executed between 1335 and 1339 on commission from Azzone Visconti.

Gilded bronze, height cm 130, panels of the south door of the Florence Baptistery, made between 1330 and 1336.

Gilded bronze, height cm 27, detail of one of the panels of the south door. The waxes were cast by Venetian craftsmen in the years after 1330.

Gilded bronze, height cm 55. Detail of one of the panels depicting the Virtues, from the south door of the Baptistery, executed between 1330 and 1336.

Gilded bronze, height cm 50. Detail of one of the panels depicting the Virtues, from the south door of the Baptistery, executed between 1330 and 1336.

Marble, detail, 1347/48. Unique testimony of his work in Orvieto. Almost certain intervention by his son, Nino.

Polychrome wood, detail.

Marble, height cm 100. Panel from the first tier of reliefs decorating the bell tower of Florence Cathedral, on which Andrea worked together with Giotto.

Marble, height cm 100. Panel belonging to the first tier of decoration, executed by Andrea to a design by Giotto. The panels of the tiers above the first date from after the 15th century; this one dates from 1337.

Marble, height cm 60. Detail of a panel representing the 'Human Activities', made by Andrea for the decoration of the Cathedral bell tower, of whose works he became master builder in 1340.

Marble, detail of a statue made in the workshop opened by Nino with his father Andrea in 1343.

Polychrome marble, detail. About 1345.

Marble, detail height cm 110. Placed over the tomb of Fra' Cavalcanti in the church of Santa Maria Novella in the last century.

Polychrome wood, height cm 168. Statue made by Nino after 1349, when, following the death of his father Andrea, he inherited the direction of the Pisan workshop.

Polychrome wood, detail of the statue made by Nino after 1349.

Marble, height cm 16, detail of the Tabernacle of the Madonna in the Loggia of Orsanmichele, built between 1355 and 1359.

Marble with glass inlays.

Marble, detail. Work by Arnoldi, who around 1361 was working as master builder at Florence Cathedral on the decoration of the second tier of reliefs.

Marble, height cm 220. The work was carved between 1408 and 1413 for Florence Cathedral.

Marble, detail of the Porta della Mandorla of Santa Maria del Fiore, on which Nanni worked around 1408.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail, height cm 95.

Marble, detail, height cm. 150, about 1419.

Marble, detail of the funerary monument to Niccolò Brenzoni, 1424-1426, which also bears frescoes by Pisanello.

Marble, height cm 80, detail.

Marble, height cm 180. Detail of the statue placed at the top of the Mausoleum, about 1363.

Marble, detail.

Polychrome wood, height cm 100.

Polychrome wood.

Polychrome wood, height cm 36. A work dating from after 1402, the year in which Valdambrino took part in the competition for the second door of the Florence Baptistery, won by Ghiberti.

Gilded bronze, height cm 54. The only sculpture attributed with certainty to Brunelleschi is this panel of 1401.

Gilded bronze, height cm 54. Slab with which the artist won the competition for the Baptistery door in 1401.

Gilded bronze (height cm 27), detail of the panel from the north door of the Baptistery, commissioned from him after he won the competition of 1401 held by the Arte di Calimala, executed between 1403 and 1415 and installed in 1424.

Gilded bronze (height cm 54), detail of the panel from the north door of the Baptistery, executed between 1403 and 1415 and installed in 1424.

Gilded brass. Height cm 79. Slab for Siena Baptistery 1427.

Gilded bronze, height cm 60. Eastern door slab.

Gilded bronze, height cm 79. Panel from the east door, known as the “Gates of Paradise”.

Polychrome wood, detail, 1421.

Marble, detail, 1406/07, the artist's first work, commissioned by Paolo Guinigi, lord of Lucca, for his second wife, who died in 1405.

Marble, height cm 180, 1408. Part of the corner capital of the Doge's Palace in Venice, recently attributed to Della Quercia.

Marble, height cm 135. Fragment of the decorated enclosure of the Fonte Gaia in Piazza del Campo, Siena, depicting the Madonna, the Virtues and biblical scenes, 1409-1419.

Marble, height cm 165. Fragment of the decorated enclosure of the Fonte Gaia in Piazza del Campo, Siena, a work executed between 1409 and 1419 with many interruptions that often caused violent disputes between the artist and the patron.

Marble, height cm 85. Panel of the main portal of Bologna Cathedral, commissioned in 1425 and left unfinished owing to the artist's death in 1438.

Marble, height cm 85, panel of the main portal, 1425-1438. The pillars on either side of the door bear stories from Genesis, while the architrave above the door shows episodes from the childhood of Christ.

Marble, detail of the panel of the main portal, 1425-1438.

Marble, detail of the panel of the main portal, 1425-1438.