Guidarello
Mask of the effigy of Guidarello Guidarelli. Guidarelli was a mercenary leader who was fatally wounded in a quarrel over an elaborate shirt. In his will he stipulated the conditions for the execution of his tomb, naming a committee of Ravenna humanists to choose the best design by an artist from Florence or Venice. The effigy originally surmounted a re-cut early Christian sarcophagus, and stood in a chapel in the church of S. Francesco in Ravenna. By 1707 the sarcophagus had been appropriated by a descendant of Guidarello, and moved to the left aisle of S. Francesco. It was later taken to the Galleria Nazionale in Ravenna.
14 x 8.5”
Mask of the effigy of Guidarello Guidarelli. Guidarelli was a mercenary leader who was fatally wounded in a quarrel over an elaborate shirt. In his will he stipulated the conditions for the execution of his tomb, naming a committee of Ravenna humanists to choose the best design by an artist from Florence or Venice. The effigy originally surmounted a re-cut early Christian sarcophagus, and stood in a chapel in the church of S. Francesco in Ravenna. By 1707 the sarcophagus had been appropriated by a descendant of Guidarello, and moved to the left aisle of S. Francesco. It was later taken to the Galleria Nazionale in Ravenna.
14 x 8.5”
Mask of the effigy of Guidarello Guidarelli. Guidarelli was a mercenary leader who was fatally wounded in a quarrel over an elaborate shirt. In his will he stipulated the conditions for the execution of his tomb, naming a committee of Ravenna humanists to choose the best design by an artist from Florence or Venice. The effigy originally surmounted a re-cut early Christian sarcophagus, and stood in a chapel in the church of S. Francesco in Ravenna. By 1707 the sarcophagus had been appropriated by a descendant of Guidarello, and moved to the left aisle of S. Francesco. It was later taken to the Galleria Nazionale in Ravenna.
14 x 8.5”
