Arnolfo Di Cambio (Arnolfo Di Lapo)

Colle di Val d'Elsa 1240 ca - Florence 1303 ca

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Arnolfo ,  (b. c. 1245, Colle di Val d’Elsa [Italy]—d. 1301/10, Florence), Italian sculptor and architect whose works embody the transition between the late Gothic and Renaissance architectural sensibilities. Arnolfo studied painting under Cimabue and sculpture under Nicola Pisano. He served as assistant to Pisano in 1265–68 in the production of the pulpit for the Siena Cathedral. Arnolfo went to Rome in 1277 as the protégé of Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, at which time he may have produced the monument of Cardinal Annibaldi in the Church of San Giovanni ...

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