{"id":2670,"date":"2024-01-30T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/?post_type=artista&p=2670"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:54:31","slug":"alfonso-lombardi","status":"publish","type":"artista","link":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/artista\/alfonso-lombardi\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Lombardi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfonso Cittadella, known as Alfonso Lombardi, spent his youth producing works for the residences of the Este Dukes of Ferrara. In Bologna, starting in 1519, he modelled a monumental group depicting Hercules and the Hydra<\/em> in terracotta painted to emulate bronze for the Sala degli Anziani in the town hall, and the Funeral of the Virgin<\/em> in the upper oratory of Santa Maria della Vita. In the same city he made the Bottrigari tombs in the church of San Francesco, the tomb of the mercenary captian Armaciotto de\u2019 Ramazzotti in San Michele in Bosco, decoration with the Saviour<\/em> and the Apostles<\/em> in the Servite church of San Giuseppe in Via Galliera and a Lamentation over the Dead Christ<\/em> in San Pietro. He also worked in Romagna, in Castel Bolognese and in Faenza. In San Petronio in Bologna, he made the reliefs for the lunette over the north aisle door and for the inner fa\u00e7ade between 1522 and 1529, while his Saints<\/em> for the vault of the Podest\u00e0 are dated 1525. In 1532 he carved the relief for the Arca di San Domenico<\/em>, St. Dominic\u2019s Tomb, signing his work with his maternal surname \u201cAlphonsus de Lombardis Ferrariensis\u201d. Much appreciated by the Emperor Charles V, whose marble portrait he carved, by King Francis I of France and by the Medici, he was an eminent artist whose reputation extended from Mantua and Ferrara to Florence and Urbino thanks to his skill in modelling terracotta, wax, stucco and bronze as well as in carving stone and marble. A commission in Rome entrusting him with carving the tombs of the Medici Popes Leo X and Clement VII never came to fruition: he died while still a young man in Bologna in 1537. Following in the furrow of the local tradition in monumental statuary forged by Niccol\u00f2 dell\u2019Arca and Guido Mazzoni, Alfonso Lombardi had the merit of developing a dialogue between sculpture and the painting of Raphael and his followers in Emilia such as Girolamo da Treviso and Girolamo da Cotignola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2670","artista","type-artista","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artista"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}