Sculpture in Rome Around the Year 1300

CYCLE: The arts around the Holy Years.
SPEAKER: Laura Cavazzini
DATE: Thursday 30 October, 6 p.m.

The lecture will focus on the varied landscape of sculpture in Rome around the year 1300, in which the star of Arnolfo shines alongside more mysterious artists, whose names are often unknown to us.
When Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first Jubilee in 1300, the leading figure of the Roman Gothic season, Arnolfo di Cambio, had already left Rome for Florence a few years earlier, having been summoned to build a new, grand and modern cathedral. However, the memory of the more than twenty years he had spent in the papal city must have still been vivid, and the basilicas where pilgrims gathered were filled with his marble masterpieces, glowing with light and color thanks to rich glass inlays. Other artists had also stepped into the spotlight, responding to the needs of the Curia.

Laura Cavazzini was born in Parma, where she graduated from the classical high school, and continued her studies in Tuscany: first at the University of Siena, where she earned her degree, and then at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where she completed her PhD. She is currently Full Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Trento.
Her research primarily focuses on late medieval sculpture, the artistic culture of the International Gothic, the origins of the Renaissance, and the legacy of the Middle Ages in the modern era. On these topics, she has contributed to exhibitions and conferences, published articles in journals and collective volumes, as well as the book Il crepuscolo della scultura medievale in Lombardia (Florence, Olschki 2004).

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