Lanfranco (active in
Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
from c. 1099 to 1110) was an Italian architect. His only known work is the
Modena Cathedral
Modena Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta e San Geminiano but colloquially known as simply ''Duomo di Modena'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Modena, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint G ...
. Record of his work there is in the early 13th-century manuscript ''Relatio de innovatione ecclesie sancti Gemeniani'' in the Chapter archives of Modena. Here he is described as the "principal and supreme artificer of such an arduous undertaking".
[Fossi, Gloria, ''Italian Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture from the Origins to the Present Day'', p. 26. Giunti, 2000. ] Together with Bonsignore, the
Bishop of Reggio, Lanfranco discovered the urn with relics of
St. Geminianus
Saint Geminianus (also known as Saint Geminian, or Saint Gimignano) was a fourth-century deacon who became Bishop of Modena. He is mentioned in the year 390, when he participated in a council called by Saint Ambrose in Milan. From his name, it ha ...
for the new church in 1106. A Latin apsidal epigraph in the cathedral describes Lanfranco as "famous for ingenuity, knowledgeable and competent director of works, governor and master".
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Romanesque architects
12th-century Italian architects
Architects from Modena