GUIDO di 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 workers active in the Lucca Cathedral (Stories of S. Martino and S. Regolo, 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, derived from the rough art of Wiligelmo, to orient himself 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.