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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