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Female bust known as La Mora
Female head called of Theodora
Lying statue of Gaston de Foix
San Sigismondo traveling to Aguano
Ark of Bernabò Visconti
Plate with the symbols of the Evangelsti
Portal of the Banco Mediceo
Tabernacle with figures of angels
External fornix of the Pusterla dei Fabbri
Votive statues from Porta Ticinese
Nine hank readout
Female bust known as La Mora
Female head called of Theodora
Lying statue of Gaston de Foix
San Sigismondo traveling to Aguano
Ark of Bernabò Visconti
Plate with the symbols of the Evangelsti
Portal of the Banco Mediceo
Tabernacle with figures of angels
External fornix of the Pusterla dei Fabbri
Votive statues from Porta Ticinese
Nine hank readout

Ark of Bernabò Visconti

Bonino da Campione

Displayed in:

Museum of Ancient Art

Museum of Ancient Art

Piazza Castello, Milan

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The harmonious composure of the monument, the quality of the sculptural details and the profusion of the decorative apparatus, where the gold leaf almost completely covers the marble, make the work a masterpiece of Lombard statuary. Bernabò Visconti (1323-1385), riding his imposing steed with the stick in his hand, is flanked by the allegorical figures of Justice and the Fortress. The group, a single block of Candoglia marble, was commissioned by him by 1363. On his death, his nephew Gian Galeazzo ordered to complete the ark by assembling a sarcophagus sculpted by Campione workers and reassembling the various parts in the palatine church of San Giovanni in Conca. The attribution of the work to Bonino da Campione in its later stages remains the most authoritative. The artist was responsible for the design and execution of the figurative elements of the Ark of Cansignorio della Scala (Verona, Arche Scaligere), brother of Beatrice della Scala, consort of Bernabò, whose tomb is traditionally identified in the monument exhibited in II room (inv. no. 858), also from San Giovanni in Conca.
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Title: Ark of Bernabò Visconti

Author: Bonino da Campione

Date: 1360 - 1385/138

Technique: Marble with traces of gilding and polychromy

Displayed in: Museum of Ancient Art

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