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Brioloto
Document Type
Reference Entry
Author
Source
Oxford Art Online, 2003
Subject
Italian
Language
English
Abstract
(fl Verona, 1189–1226). Italian sculptor. He is mentioned in an inscription now on the interior south wall of S Zeno Maggiore, Verona, and in various Veronese documents between 1189 and 1226. He completed the upper part of the façade of S Zeno, where he was responsible for the rose window and the six figures surrounding the Wheel of Fortune. Although the inscription associates him directly only with the window, he may also have remodelled the portal beneath, adding new framing figures and friezes (see S Maria Antica (Verona)). Brioloto’s figure style, in which rich, sweeping drapery folds cover elongated, classicizing figures gesturing theatrically, is related to the work of the Campionesi and to Nicholaus, rather than to Benedetto Antelami. Several other works in Verona have been attributed to Brioloto and to his contemporary, Adamino da San Giorgio (fl 1217–25; responsible for the animal frieze of the choir-screen of S Zeno), such as the font for the baptistery of S Giovanni in Fonte, which bears scenes from the ...