Bologna

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).

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

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

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.

Detail of the Arca di San Domenico.

Description: Polychrome terracotta, detail. After 1485. Part of the group of six weeping figures arranged around the body of Christ taken down from the Cross, as in a sacred play.

Description: Marble, detail of Arca di San Domenico. Height, about 50 cm, 1469-1473.

Marble, detail, about 1650.

Marble, height cm 286, about 1650.

Marble, detail, 1563-1566.

Description: Bronze, height cm 47, 1958.