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Arnolfo di Cambio

San Pietro

This celebrated image conforms more to the concept of papal authority than to a devotional function. An inflexible sculptural will isolates, in a controlled yet flashing, imperious movement, almost harsh in its resolve, the incisive definition of a theological concept, with all the axiomatic brutality of the medieval mind.

How to cite

Bruno Balestrini (photograph), “San Pietro”, work by Arnolfo di Cambio, Gothic Sculpture, Rome, Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. Bruno Balestrini Photographic Archive, https://brunobalestrini.org/cita/sch00574/. Accessed [date accessed].

This English text was translated with the help of artificial intelligence (Claude) from the Italian original, except where an English version already existed in the original archive. Read the Italian version.