Tomb of St Giovanni Gualberto (fragment)
by BENEDETTO DA ROVEZZANO, Marble
In 1505 Benedetto went to Florence and began his most ambitious work, the marble sepulchre of St Giovanni Gualberto (St John Gualbert) for Santa Trinita. Substantially completed by 1515, the monument was wrecked during the Siege of Florence in 1530; several surviving reliefs demonstrate Benedetto’s rather hard, linear figural style.
St Giovanni Gualberto (c. 985-1073) was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order.