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Matteo Civitali (1436 - 1501) was an Italian sculptor and architect, painter and engineer from Lucca. He was a leading artistic personality of the Early Renaissance in Lucca, where he was born and where most of his work remains.
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Matteo Civitali (1436–1501)
Matteo Civitali (1436–1501) was an Italian sculptor and architect, painter and engineer from Lucca. He was a leading artistic personality of the Early Renaissance in Lucca, where he was born and where most of his work remains. He was trained in Florence, where Antonio Rossellino and Mino da Fiesole influenced his mature style
Matteo Civitali (1436–1501) was a famous renaissance architect formed at the school of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence. One of his more famous buildings is the Palazzo Pretorio (Palazzo del Podestà) in Lucca
A larger than life statue, erected in 1893, honoring Matteo Civitali, of which one of his works, "Madonna and Child" adorn the right side of the church of San Michele, sits in the portico of the Palazzo Pretoriale, Lucca
On the lower right corner of the façade of San Michele in foro church is a statue (1480) of the Madonna salutisportus, sculpted by Matteo Civitali to celebrate the end of the 1476 plague
On the right corner once stand the famous marble statue of the “Madonna and Child”, known as the “Madonna SalutisPortus”
The statue was commissioned around 1480 by the illustrious Lucchese politician, diplomatic and academic DomenicoBertini (1417-1506) from the brilliant Renaissance Lucchese artist Matteo Civitali (1436-1502) as a sign of gratefulness to the Holy Virgin for deliverance Lucca from the Black Death, which razed the city in 1476
At present, the marvellous “Madonna SalutisPortus” is hosted in the indoors of the church
Villa OlivaBuonvisi Lucca The Palace was residence of two Buonvisi Cardinals, Gerolamo and Francesco. In 1661 Cardinal Gerolamo hosted a Sinod with the participation of Pope Alexander VIII at the Villa; and Cardinal Francesco hosted another Sinod in 1700
The Cathedral of St Martin (Duomo) in Lucca
In the nave of Duomodi Lucca a small octagonal temple or chapel shrine contains the most precious relic in Lucca, the Volto Santo di Lucca or Sacred Countenance. This cedar-wood crucifix and image of Christ, according to the legend, was carved by his contemporary Nicodemus, and miraculously conveyed to Lucca in 782. The chapel was built in 1484 by Matteo Civitali, the most famous Luccan sculptor of the early Renaissance
His free-standing chapel, the "tempietto", built in 1484 to enshrine the Holy Face of Lucca, stands in the left nave of the Cathedral of San Martino, Lucca S.Sebastian in the back of the Holy Face Shrine
St Sebastian Plaster cast Width of base 57.2 cm Victoria and Albert Museum
Plastercast Victoria & Albert Museum London
Angelo orante Plastercast Victoria & Albert Museum London Relief Victoria & Albert Museum London
Cattedrale di San Martino, Lucca Sepolcro di Domenico Bertini, (details) 1496
Head of DomenicoBertini (casting in Pushkin museum) Tabernacle 1467
Altare di San Regolo, Matteo Civitali, La cattedrale di San Martino, Lucca
Altare di San Regolo, Matteo Civitali, Cattedrale di San Martino, Lucca
Faith adoring the Holy Sacrament The relief of Faith (now in the National Museum of Florence, Italy) was originally the first segment part of Hope and Love, a triple relief. This marble figure of Faith was acquired by the Uffizi Gallery in 1830 from the prior of a church at Paterno near Florence. This piece of work existed in the church of Saint Michele in Lucca MuseoNazionale, Firenze Plastercast Victoria & Albert Museum London
The most represented artist in the cathedral is Matteo Civitali (late 15th century), whom Henry James called the "wisest, sanest, homeliest, kindest of quattro-cento sculptors." Civitali contributed the inlaid pavement, pulpit, two stoups, altar of St. Regulus, the tabernacle housing the Volto Santo, and the celebrated tombs of PietrodaNoceto and DomenicoBertini in the south transept Statue of Matteo Civitali by Arnaldo Fazzi Palazzo Pretorio, Lucca
Adolfo Pieroni, 1877, 38 mm Lucca commemorative medal, bronze, Academy of Sciences, Literature and art Statue of Matteo Civitali by Arnaldo Fazzi
Matteo Civitali is known to have sculpted statues of Adam, Eve, Abraham, Saints Zacchariah and Elizabeth, and others for the chapel of San Giovanni Battista in Genoa Cathedral. He is mentioned with the name of Matteo Civitali by Vasari in his biography of Jacopo dellaQuercia, and appears to have taken up the art of sculpture at the age of 40 years, after years of practicing as a "barber" (surgeon) Statue of Matteo Civitali by Arnaldo Fazzi (1855 – 1944)
The Duomo of Lucca contains also a virtual anthology of Matteo's sculpture, since he worked at the San Romano Altar, and also sculpted the S.Sebastian in the back of the Holy Face Shrine, and two monumental graves in the right transept. Matteo Civitali died on 12 October 1501 Pieve Lammari, in the church of San Jacopo, is the last work of Matteo Civitali: Altare del Sacramento o Tabernacolo della Pietà
Madonna in trono con Bambino, 1450-1499, Chiesa della SS. Trinità, Lucca Plaster Victoria & Albert Museum London
Chiesa di San Vincenzo Ferrer e Santa Caterina de' Ricci, Prato
Lucca, Madonna col Bambino, 1470 ca, da Loggia Mercanti via Fillungo
Reliefs of the Virgin and Child were extremely popular in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They would have been displayed in the home not just as objects of devotion, but also as exemplars of the ideal mother and child. They could also be found on street corners as neighborhood protectors, as well as in religious settings
The relief is based on an original in gilded marble of the Virgin and Child with Angels by Matteo Civitali, and dated to around 1460-61. The marble has been in the church of San VincenzoFerrer and Santa Caterina de' Ricci in Prato since the beginning of the 20th century. This one was bought in Florence in 1911 from the dealer and collector, Stefano Bardini, whose house is now a magnificent museum Tabernacle Victoria & Albert Museum London Victoria & Albert Museum London
Vergine Annunziata Scultura lignea di M. Civitali Basilica di S. Frediano, Lucca
