Arnolfo di Cambio is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Arnolfo di Cambio as Italian architect and sculptor (1240–1302).
Arnolfo di Cambio was born at Colle di Val d'Elsa in 1242. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Learning then moved through courts, monasteries and madrasas, and reach depended on which libraries and translations lay within travelling distance.
Arnolfo di Cambio is described as architect, sculptor and painter.
Among his principal works are Dormition of the Virgin and double bust of two apostles, Madonna with Glass Eyes and Saint Peter. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are art of sculpture and architecture.
Working from Italy shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1306, at 64. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Dormition of the Virgin and double bust of two apostles
- Notable work: Madonna with Glass Eyes
- Notable work: Saint Peter
- Notable work: Basilica of Santa Croce
- Worked as architect, sculptor and painter
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