Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Camposanto Fresco Cycle; Hell
Image View:
Detail, horned monster at the center of Hell with human bodies in his stomach
Creator:
Buffalmacco (Italian painter, active ca. 1314-ca. 1351)
Location:
repository: Camposanto (Pisa, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
North side of Piazza dei Miracoli
GPS:
43.723 10.395
Date:
ca. 1335-1340 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Late Gothic
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco); transferred to modern backing
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Relation Work:
part of Camposanto
Subjects:
allegory; death or burial; funerary art; New Testament; Cemeteries; Restoration and conservation
Description:
No securely identified work of Buonamico Buffalmacco has survived, but he has been identified as the Master of the Triumph of Death (by Bellosi), the painter of an extensive fresco cycle in the Camposanto (cemetery building) of Pisa, formerly attributed to Francesco Traini. Buffalmacco was well known by his contemporaries Lorenzo Ghiberti and Boccaccio, who mentions him in the Decameron. Ghiberti mentions 'numerous scenes' painted by Buffalmacco in the Camposanto at Pisa. The Triumph of Death on the south wall and the immediately adjoining wall paintings, the Last Judgment with Hell and the Life of the Anchorites (or Thebaid) are now attributed to Buffalmaco. These were damaged and removed after World War II; they are now being put back in their original positions in the building after restoration. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
6A1-BUFFAL-HELL-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Camposanto Fresco Cycle; Hell