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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.
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 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...
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.
The Restoration of the Equestrian Monument of Bernabò Visconti. Milan, Castello Sforzesco. "By gold and silver is covered the baron": this was how Matteo from Milan in the last decades of the fourteenth century said, in the funeral Lament of Bernabò Visconti, the first known description of the precious Candoglia marble artefact created by ...
A marble statue of Bernabò Visconti atop a horse is supported by his raised sarcophagus. The sides of the tomb are carved with different scenes. The front panel, immediately below the head of Visconti and his horse, shows the Four Evangelists.
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Dec 14, 2015 · Bernabo's funerary monument had been made a few years before his death, as was customary. Best to be prepared in those troubled times. It features a life size equestrian statue, which reveals that Bernabo must have been quite short, even if you take into account the large war stallion.
