Portal
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Carlo Campi (cast maker)
- Artist
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Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
Pavia 1447 körül – 1522 Milánó
Carlo Campi
(cast maker)
Milánó
- Dated
- 1466—1469 (original), 1909 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast, doors
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 665 × 350 × 76.5 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.215
- Department
- Sculpture
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Italy, Pavia, Certosa di Pavia
The sculptor Giovanni Antonio Amadeo worked as the assistant to Francesco Solari (mentioned 1464—1471) in Milan and on the construction of the Certosa di Pavia where he took part in the sculptural decoration of the monastery from 1466. Amadeo’s first signed work was the portal leading from the monastery church to the small cloister (Chiostro Piccolo). In the lunette above the portal’s elaborate stringcourse that was inspired by classical antiquity, there is a relief depicting the Adoration of the Child, accompanied by Carthusian monks, Saint Bruno, and Saint John the Baptist. Commissioned by the museum in 1909, cast by Carlo Campi in Milan. It was erected in 1911, in the Renaissance Hall.