부산대학교 도서관

[dei CoriSpinelli] (b Siena, c. 1363; d Siena, c. 1453). Italian sculptor, designer, and architect. He is known primarily for the large number of carved and polychromed wood statuettes of the Virgin, Virgin and Child, Christ and saints that he produced throughout his career for churches in and around Siena. The works attributed to his early career (c. 1395–1400) are characterized by broad, architectonic forms, suggestive of Nicola Pisano; however, such elements were superseded c. 1414 by an elegance of gesture and expressive drama that marked the beginnings of Domenico’s mature gothicizing style. His rekindling of the Gothic spirit is strongly evident in the Mourning Virgin and the Mourning St John executed for Siena Cathedral (1414–15; Siena, S Pietro a Ovile; restored 1923). These ‘Dolenti’ reveal a new emotionalism and suggest a direct rapport with Sienese painting of the early 15th century. Around the same time Domenico executed intarsia choir-stalls for the new chapel in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (...