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Sepulchral Monument for Bernardino Aringhieri, known as Messer Porrina (detail)
Marco Romanoca. 1309
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Siena, Italy
The monument is not actually by its original position in the collegiate church and has lost some coloured parts - even if you can see some traces of azurite in the protagonist's eyes. Recent studies have recognized in Porrina identity Bernardino Albertini, a famous medieval jurist, and linked the funeral monument to an epigraph, now lost, but transcribed in a paper manuscript of Boccaccio. Particulary intense is the physognomic portrait and the naturalistic handling of the marble in rendering the complexion of the charachter.
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- Title: Sepulchral Monument for Bernardino Aringhieri, known as Messer Porrina (detail)
- Creator Lifespan: working from the late XIIIth century - documented in Venice in 1318
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: male
- Date Created: ca. 1309
- Physical Location: Casole d'Elsa, Archaeological and Civic Museum and Collegiate Church, Province of Siena
- sculptor: Marco Romano
- Place Part Of: Province of Siena
- Artist Biography: The complex activity of Marco Romano - working in Casole d'Elsa, Cremona, Venice - has been just recently recognized thanks to the scholar Giovanni Previtali. His style, which can be comparised to the pictorial one of Simone Martini, is characterised by the definition of a Gothic classicism and very naturalistic elements, while the contemporary sculptures of Giovanni Pisano tended to a dramatic effects. Marco Romano was particularly connected with the Ghibelline powerful Albertini family, since the brother of Bernardino commissioned to him some sculptures in Cremona too.
- Type: marble
- Rights: Comune di Casole d'Elsa; Curia Arcivescovile di Siena, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Montalcino; Fondazione Musei Senesi, Fondazione Musei Senesi
- External Link: Fondazione Musei Senesi
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