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Monumento Funebre di Tommaso Andrei Casole d'Elsa
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Artist: Gano da Siena
Year: 1303-1305
Current location: Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta
Original location: Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
A work of rare beauty, the tomb of Tommaso d'Andrea [4], sculpted by Gano di Fazio, is signed: ":+: CELAVIT GANUS OPUS HOC INSIGNE SENENSIS : / LAUDIBVS IMMENSIS EST SUA DIGNA MANUS :".
Its execution, which probably dates back to between 1303 and 1305, in any case in the first decade of the fourteenth century, makes it one of the oldest Tuscan "hanging" funerary monuments, including a life-size effigy of the deceased. The work is striking for its style, imbued with sweetness, grace, and a certain femininity, contrasting with the manner of Giovanni Pisano, with whom Gano trained on the Siena Cathedral construction site. Note, in particular, the "roundness" of the volumes, indicated only by light incisions, the serenity of the deceased's features, the almost dancing rhythm of the three angels, and the lightness of the drapery lifted by three angels behind the recumbent figure.
The idea of a tomb adorned with a group of statues forming a lamentation over the funeral bed harks back, at least in Italy, to the Arnolfo prototypes developed in the last quarter of the 13th century.
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