The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic GuildScott, Leader
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The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild
Scott, Leader
Cathedrals; Church architecture; Guilds
One among Andrea's pupils who were not his relatives rose to special
and wide-spread eminence in the guild, _i.e._ Magister Giovanni
Balducci di Pisa, whose artistic career was mostly in Milan, where the
Visconti patronized him. He sculptured several tombs, among them the
beautiful Arca of St. Peter Martyr in S. Eustorgio in 1336. The
figures of the Christian Virtues are very sweet and naturalistic. On a
sculptured pulpit at S. Casciano near Florence, of the same shape and
style as that by Guido di Como at Pistoja, but infinitely more
advanced in art, he has signed, "Hoc opus fecit Johs Balducci Magister
de Pisis." The only architectural work that is mentioned as signed by
him is the door of S. Maria in Brera at Milan.
II.--LUCCA AND PISTOJA
THE BUONI FAMILY AT PISTOJA
------+------+-----------------------------+----------------------------_
1. | 1152 | Magister Buono | Employed at Ravenna and
| | | at Naples, where he built
| | | Castel dell' Uovo and Castel
| | | Capuano. At Arezzo the
| | | palace of the Signory.
| | |
2 & 3.| 1168 | "M. Johannes and Guitto" | Made the Ciborium at
| | (Guido) | Corneto.
| | |
4. | 1196 | Magister Buono, called | Built the churches of S.
| | Gruamont | Andrea and S. Gio.
| | | Evangelista at Pistoja. This
| | | man is said by Vasari to be
| | | identical with the first
| | | Buono.
| | |
5. | | M. Adeodatus, his brother | Worked with him at Pistoja.
| | |
6. | 1206 | "Magister Bonus," or Buono | Designed Fiesole cathedral.
| | |
7. | 1264 | M. Giovanni Buono (Zambono) | Worked at S. Anthony, Padua;
| | | in 1265 built the cathedral
| | | of S. Jacopo, in Pistoja.
| | |
8. | | M. Andrea Buono, his | These brothers worked
| | brother | together at the pulpit at
| | | Corneto Tarquinia, and
| | | probably built the church.
| | | Niccolao di Rannuccio
| | | sculptured the door, inlaid
| | | in Cosmati style.
| | |
9. | 1285 | M.
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