Romanesque Sculpture

Description: Late Roman sculpture, perhaps imported from the East.

Description: Stone, detail of the portal on left side of the Abbey.

Iron Crown, made of gold, precious stones and enamels.

Silver with niello, gilding and settings.

Embossed copper.

Stone.

Avorio.

Marble. Detail dated 723.

Gold worked in filigree.

Stone.

Marble, detail.

Marble.

Marble, detail of the work that magister Orso, signed in 739.

Stone with marble veining, particolare.

Marble, detail of the slab with hippocamps. Transennae of the Presbytery Enclosure of the Church of Santa Maria. Monastero di Teodora. It is dated to around 720.

Marble, detail of the slab with peacocks. Transennae from the chancel enclosure of the church of Santa Maria. Monastery of Theodota.

Marble, detail, 744-749.

Damascened iron.

Marble.

Marble.

Metal sculpture set with hard stones, cameos and glass.

Gold sheet with stones and enamels, detail of the front face. The altar was conceived in the time of Charles the Bald, as an inscription shows. The gold covering of the altar was donated by Archbishop Angilbert II (824-859).

Sheet of gilded silver.

Marble, detail.

Stone.

Stone detail.

Ivory. The holy-water bucket of Archbishop Gotofredo of Milan was made for the ceremonies in Sant'Ambrogio on the occasion of Otto II's passage through Milan in 980.

Stucco, detail of the tympanum of the ciborium.

Stucco, detail of the relief in the crypt.

Stucco, detail.

Copper.

Stone. Detail of the capital in the crypt, about 1140.

Stone.

Silver, gilded and embossed. Detail.

Bronze panel from the door. The door of San Zeno, reassembled at the time the façade of the cathedral was completed (1117-1138), is the work of different periods and hands. It now consists of 83 panels. Lagerino is the author of the oldest of them.

Bronze panel from the door.

Bronze panel from the door

Stone detail.

Stone.

Marble, detail of the pulpit carved by an anonymous master about 1118.

Marble, detail.

Serpentine marble.

Stucco, tympanum of the ciborium.

Marble, detail.

Stone.

Marble.

Marble, detail of the façade slabs carved by Wiligelmo in the early 12th century, with reliefs from the Book of Genesis.

Marble.

Marble.

Marble, detail portraying the patron saint of the church. (attributed)

1099-1106.

Stone detail.

Stone. Detail of the Pescheria portal, on the north side of the cathedral, carved with scenes from the Breton cycle. This series of knights represents the episode of the assault on the castle of Mardoc.

Marble.

Stone.

Marble, about 1100.

Stone, relief carved in the early decades of the twelfth century.

Marble, detail of a capital in the cloister of the church.

Stone.

Marble. The artist worked on the Cathedral façade. Detail of the portal, concluded in 1141.

Marble, detail of the decorations executed on the cathedral façade around 1135. (attributed)

Marble, detail. Relief on church facade, about 1138.

Stone.

Stone.

Stone.

Marble, detail of the rood screen. Anselmo headed the Campionese masters at Modena Cathedral from 1160 to 1175. (attributed)

Marble, detail of the choir decoration inside the Cathedral, work on which began around 1178.

Marble, detail of the lunette on the west portal of the Baptistery, on whose construction and decoration Antelami worked from 1196 to 1216.

Stone. Interior lunette of the Baptistery.

Marble, detail of the lunette adorning the south portal of the Baptistery, representing the Tree of Life according to the fable of Barlaam. About 1196-1216.

Stone, detail of one of the figures representing the Prophets and Apostles which decorated the sides of the north Baptistery Portal. About 1196-1216.

Stone, detail of one of the statues representing allegorical figures and Prophets adorning the portals of the Baptistery, about 1196-1216. (School of Antelami)

Stone. Detail of a lunette of the Abbey portal. -

Marble. Statue belonging to one of the sculptural groups decorating the (unfinished) façade of Fidenza Cathedral, on whose design Antelami worked during the first decade of the 13th century.

Stone. Mid-XII century.

Marble, about 1230.

Marble, detail of a fragment of the old Milan Cathedral.

Stone. Detail of one of the reliefs showing zodiac signs carved in the middle arch of the main Basilica portal. About 1240. -

Stone, detail of the band belonging to the triple series of reliefs adorning the portal of the Basilica, about 1265.

Marble with polychromy.

Marble, mid-12th century.

Marble.

Stone.

Marble, detail.

Marble. Height approx. cm 200. Work by an anonymous master who carved the “Stories of Saints Martin and Regulus” in the portico of the cathedral around 1233.

Marble, detail.

Bronze, detail of one of the panels decorated with biblical and Gospel episodes and with prophets, which make up the San Ranieri door of the Cathedral, about 1186.

Bronze, detail of the San Ranieri door.

Marble, detail. The pulpit, decorated with stories of the Passion, was made for Pisa Cathedral and brought from there in 1312 to Cagliari Cathedral.

Marble, frieze of the east door of the Baptistery, second half of the 12th century.

Bronze, detail of one of the panels of the Cathedral royal door, 1186.

Marble, detail of church portal.

Stone, detail, after 1180.

Marble.

Marble, detail of the relief on pulpit, about 1250.

Stone, detail of the relief signed by the author, dated about 1170. (with Adeodato)

Marble.

Polychrome wood.

Polychrome wood.

Polychrome wood.

Fragment in polychrome wood.

Polychrome wood with stones.

Polychrome wood.

Travertine, detail of the reliefs of the façade.

Marble, detail from relief on the portal.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail about mid-XII century.

Marble.

Polychrome marble. The Vassalletto family belongs to the Cosmati, a conventional name used for certain families of marble workers active in Rome and Lazio between the 12th and the end of the 13th century as decorators and architects. (attributed)

Marble. (with Pietro Vassalletto)

Marble, detail.

Marble.

Marble.

Stone.

Marble.

Stone detail.

Stone, detail of a figured capital.

Stone with polychrome remains, details.

Marble, detail on the main pulpit.

Polychrome marble.

Marble, detail of the Cathedra.

Bronze. Detail of a panel of the Cathedral Door, gravely damaged during the last war.

Marble, about 1239, allegorical head. Inspired by antique models, it reflects the climate of 'renaissance' fostered by Frederick II and his court.

Marble, about 1239, allegorical head. Inspired by antique models, it reflects the climate of 'renaissance' fostered by Frederick II and his court.

Stone.

Stone.

Bronze, panel of the door, signed by the artist.

Bronze, panel of the door.

Stone.

Detail of a bronze door with damascening.