Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Art & architecture Artists

Guido di Como (Guido Bigarelli)

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Also known as: Italian: Guido da Como

GUIDO DI COMO (GUIDO BIGARELLI). - Sculptor, b. 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 at Pistoia.

Other works at Pistoia, Pisa and Lucca are to be attributed to his manner. Having perhaps begun his activity alongside the busy workshops in the cathedral of Lucca (Stories of St. Martin and St. Regulus, in the atrium), he moved away - perhaps under the influence of the artists active at Pisa - from the examples of strong plasticism offered him by those sculptures, deriving from the rude art of Wiligelmo, to turn toward simpler, flatter and more graceful forms. This is seen especially in the pulpit of Pistoia, where he carved Stories of the life of Christ.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: P. Toesca, Storia dell'arte ital., I, Turin 1927, pp. 783-85; M. Salmi, La scultura romanica in Toscana, Florence 1928, p. 110. Pietro Zampetti

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By Pietro Zampetti

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), coll. 1290–1291.

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Zampetti, Pietro. “Guido di Como (Guido Bigarelli).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, coll. 1290–1291. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/guido-di-como-guido-bigarelli.

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Zampetti, Pietro. “Guido di Como (Guido Bigarelli).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1290–1291. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/guido-di-como-guido-bigarelli.

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  author    = {Zampetti, Pietro},
  title     = {Guido di Como (Guido Bigarelli)},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {1290--1291},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/guido-di-como-guido-bigarelli}
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