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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.
Boninio de 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.
Bernabò Visconti was born into the ruling family of Milan and commissioned his own tomb monument from Bonino da Campione before 1363. The marble statue was originally painted gold and silver and located at the high altar of the palace church, San Giovanni in Conca in Milan.
San Giovanni in Conca was a church in the center of Milan, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist. It had a Paleochristian origin and went through a renovation in Romanesque style. In the 13th century, it became part of the private compound of the Visconti house and transformed into the private chapel of Bernabò Visconti and ...
The tomb of Bernabò Visconti, lord of Milan from 1354 to 1385, is a spectacular funeral monument. Its original location was the chancel of San Giovanni in Conca, Milan, an ancient church near the...
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.
The sculpture, designed as equestrian statue of Bernabò in parade armor and placed in the apse of the Church, was merged, the death of Visconti, the sarcophagus. Work from the workshop by Bonino da Campione, is one of the masterpieces of sculpture of the 14th century.
