Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Monument to Bernabò Visconti
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Monument to Bernabò Visconti
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Image View:
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Detail, columns and capitals with gilding under the sarcophagus
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Creator:
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Bonino da Campione (Italian sculptor, active ca. 1350-1390)
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Location:
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repository: Castello Sforzesco (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Sforzesco Castle Museum, Milan
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GPS:
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+45.47+9.178611
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Date:
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statue, ca. 1363 (creation); tomb, 1385-1386 (alteration)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fourteenth century; Gothic (Medieval)
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Work Type 1:
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equestrian statue
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Work Type 2:
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monument
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Work Type 3:
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bas-relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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600 cm (height)
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Subjects:
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death or burial; funerary art; military or war; New Testament; rulers and leaders; saints
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Description:
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Bernabò Visconti (1323-1385) was an Italian soldier and statesman, who was Lord of Milan. Bonino da Campione sculpted the equestrian statue of Bernabò Visconti for the church of San Giovanni in Conca around 1363. Its positioning near the church's main altar was regarded as highly problematic by contemporaries and it was commented on by poet and intellectual Petrarch among others, since Bernabò was considered a despot and tyrant who was deposed and later poisoned. The equestrian statue was reused with changes and additions (a sarcophagus) carried out by the same Bonino in 1385-1386 as Bernabò's funerary monument in the same church. It was moved to the Castello Sforzesco in Milan after the church was demolished. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A2-I-M-SC-MBV-A24
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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