Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
GUIDO of COMO (GUIDO BIGARELLI). - Sculptor, born perhaps at Arogno, he lived for a long time in Tuscany. In 1246 he executed the font of the baptistery of Pisa; in 1250 he signed the pulpit of the church of S. Bartolomeo in Pantano in Pistoia.Other works in Pistoia, Pisa, and Lucca are attributed to his manner. Having perhaps begun his activity alongside the craftsmen working in the Lucca Cathedral (Stories of St. Martin and St. Regulus in the atrium), he moved away—perhaps under the influence of the artists active in Pisa—from the examples of strong plasticity offered by those sculptures, which derived from the rough art of Wiligelmo, and turned toward simpler, flatter, and more graceful forms. This is especially evident in the pulpit of Pistoia, where he carved Stories of the Life of Christ.
BIBL.: P. Toesca, Storia dell'arte ital., I, Torino 1927, pp. 783-85; M. Salmi, La scultura romanica in Toscana, Firenze 1928, p. 110.
Pietro Zampetti
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“GUIDO DI COMO (GUIDO BIGARELLI).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 765. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/guido-di-como-guido-bigarelli.
