Tomb of Enrico Sanseverino

High quality work, inspired by the monument of Emperor Henry VII

The funerary monument of Enrico Sanseverino, Count of Marsico, is today located in the counter-façade of the Teggiano cathedral. The inscription tells us that Enrico's body was moved to Teggiano in 1336, and we can assume that the monument was completed around that year. The work, of high quality in its execution, is in fact attributed to the last phase of activity of Tino di Camaino's industrious Neapolitan workshop.

It is a wall monument, once furnished with a canopy of which only two pinnacles survive. The columns that support the sarcophagus are false. The model is inspired by the monument of Emperor Henry VII in the Cathedral of Pisa, and plausibly was originally to be placed in the tribune, perhaps behind the main altar, as per regal custom.

 

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