부산대학교 도서관

(fl 1498; d Cesena, between Sept 7, 1524 and Jan 21, 1525). Italian sculptor. Originally from Campione, Lake Lugano, he was mainly active in Cesena, where he is first documented in 1498. Commissions there for marble statues for the cathedral (1510) and for a chapel entrance arch at S Francesco (1513) apparently went unexecuted. His one certain independent work is the signed funerary monument of Luffo Numai (1509; Ravenna, S Francesco). This work of architectural and decorative sculpture, with polychrome stone inlay and rich classical rinceau decoration in high relief, suggests familiarity with Pietro Lombardo’s work in Venice. Pilasters carved in the same style testify to Fiamberti’s role in an earlier documented monument to Luffo Numai (1502; Forlì, S Maria dei Servi, also called S Pellegrino), in which he collaborated with a fellow Lombard, Giovanni Ricci (1440/50–after 1523), his partner from c. 1498 to 1508. The precise division of labour in this monument, however, remains controversial. The Forlì monument has formed the basis for many attributions of figural reliefs to Fiamberti, as well as for his identification (De Nicola) as the ...