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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. 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 salutis portus, 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 Salutis Portus”

The statue was commissioned around 1480 by the illustrious Lucchese politician, diplomatic and academic Domenico Bertini (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

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Villa Oliva Buonvisi 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 Duomo di 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

Il tempietto di Volto Santo

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

Saint Sebastian in the back of the Holy Face Shrine

St Sebastian Plaster cast Width of base 57.2 cmVictoria and Albert Museum

Angelo adorante, Lucca, Cattedrale di S. Martino, Lucca

Angelo orante, Lucca, Cattedrale di S. Martino

Plastercast Victoria & Albert

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Cattedrale di San Martino, Lucca Sepolcro di Domenico Bertini, (details) 1496

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Head of Domenico Bertini (casting in Pushkin museum)

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

Museo Nazionale, Firenze

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 Pietro da Noceto and Domenico Bertini in the south transept

Statue of Matteo Civitali by Arnaldo FazziPalazzo Pretorio, Lucca

Adolfo Pieroni, 1877, 38 mm Lucca commemorative medal, bronze, Academy of Sciences, Literature and artStatue 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 della Quercia, 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

Busto dell‘Ecce Homo, 1485

Busto Salvatore con corona di spine, 1485-90

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

Victoria & Albert Museum London

Victoria & Albert Museum London

TabernacleVictoria & Albert

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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 Vincenzo Ferrer 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

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Altare con Cristo sul sepolcro, 1510ca Museo Civico Turin

Cappella di San Giovanni Battista Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Genova

National gallery in Washington D.C. San Sebastiano,terracotta, 1492

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1875 Michele Marcucci Atelier of Matteo Civitali Oil painting, 190 × 275cm Lucca, Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

The Prophet Zachariah in the Chapel of S.Giovanni Battista in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa

St. Sebastian, painted, 182 × 55 × 25cm Monte San Quirico church

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Sound: Maria Callas - Ave Maria (Verdi)

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