Wiligelmo (also known as Wiligelmus, Gulielmo da Modena, Cousin of Elmo or Guglielmo da Modena) was an Italian
sculptor
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active between c. 1099 and 1120. He was the first sculptor in Italy to produce large-format
sculpture
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s and sign his work.
Wiligelmo was the carver of the reliefs known as ''Creation'' and ''Temptation of Adam and Eve'' found on the west facade
frieze
In architecture, the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor ...
of
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 ...
(ca. 1110). The relief is marble and about one meter tall. His name is known from an
epigraph carved as a postscript to the Latin inscription over the foundation date on that facade: ''Among sculptors, your work shines forth, Wiligelmo''.
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12th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
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