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Equestrian statue of Bernabò Visconti in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan. In 1356, after having offended the emperor, he pushed back a first attack upon Milan by the imperial vicar Markward von Randeck, imprisoning him. In 1360 he was declared heretic by Innocent VI at Avignon and condemned by Emperor Charles IV.
- 1354–1385
- Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)
- 1323, Milan, Italy
- Gian Galeazzo Visconti
The equestrian statue was reused – with changes and additions carried out by the same Bonino in 1385-86 – as Bernabò’s funerary monument in the same church. It is now preserved in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
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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.
Il monumento funebre di Bernabò Visconti è un gruppo scultoreo in marmo di Candoglia realizzato da Bonino da Campione e allievi della sua bottega. Originariamente collocato nella Chiesa di San Giovanni in Conca a Milano per accogliere la sepoltura del Duca, è oggi custodito nel Museo d'arte antica del Castello Sforzesco di Milano.
- 1363 (1385 per il sarcofago)
- Marmo di Candoglia
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 ...
Monument of Bernabò Visconti. 1363-85. Marble, height 600 cm. Castello Sforzesco, Milan. Bonino da Campione set the seal upon the Veronese equestrian figure and the Veronese sepulchral monument, initially at Milan in the tomb of Bernabò Visconti and later at Verona in that of Cansignorio della Scala.
Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (1354 -1385) An equestrian statue of Bernabo Visconti, seen from behind and showing the man only, wearing armour decorated with a dragon, his saddle decorated with a dragon rising from fire and devouring a man; with three details to the right, of a clasp, chain-mail and a roundel decoration. 1252597 | National Tru...
