The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild

----+--------+------------------------------+------------------------------ 1. | 1387 | Magister Simone da Arsenigo | First _capo maestro_ of | | | Milan cathedral. | | | 2. | "...

----+---------+--------------------------+--------------------------------- 1. | 1258 | Magister Jacopo Tedesco | Built castles at Arezzo and | | da Campione | Poppi; and the Ba...

-------+-----------+--------------------------+---------------------------- 1. | A.D. 88 | Magister Mutius | Pliny's architect. | | | 2. | 7th or | M. Sisinius | Architect repre...

The very mention of Pisa brings to our minds Niccolò Pisano, whose name stands in all art histories as the fountain-head of that Tuscan development of art which led to the Renai...

-----+------+-------------------------+------------------------------- |About | | 1. | 712 |Magister Ursus | Sculptured the altar at | | | Ferentilla, and a ciborium at | | | S....

In looking back to the great church-building era, _i.e._ to the centuries between 1100 and 1500, do not the questions arise in one's mind, "How did all these great and noble bui...

----+---------+-----------------------------+---------------------------- 1. | 1259 | Magister Luglio Benintendi }| | | }| Architects employed on Siena 2. | | M. Rubeo q. Bartol...

The _Collegium_ was a corporation or guild of persons associated in support of a common object; there were colleges of artists, of architects, builders, and artisans, as well as...

----+----+----------------------------+---------------------------------- 1. |1137| Magister Fredus or | Built S. Maria Maggiore, | | Gufredus | Bergamo. 2. |1212| M. Adam of Ar...

The Comacine Masters were distinctly sculptor-architects, and their ornamentation was an essential part of their buildings. Yet, to them, sculpture was by no means mere ornament...

---+-------+--------------------------+------------------------------- 1. | 805 | Magister Natalis | A Lombard, employed at Lucca | | | to build a church and make | | | a canal....

----+--------+-----------------------------+------------------------------- 1. | 1407 | Mistro Lorenzo da Vielino | _Gastaldo_ or Grand Master. | | | 2. | 1423 | M. Scipione Buo...

Painting is not generally supposed to be connected in any great degree with architecture: indeed it has now become a distinctly independent art. In the Middle Ages I believe the...

When the romantic style of building, which the Comacine Masters had imbibed in Sicily, came in, their serious set-by-rule building went out. The first use they made of their new...

----+---------+----------------------------+----------------------------- 1. | 1050 | Magister Ersati di Ligorno | | | | 2. | 1099 | M. Lanfranco, son of | Chief architect at Mo...

The great building guild of the Middle Ages had another connection with France, independently of Charlemagne, and one which perhaps left a more lasting impression on the nation...

Ecclesiastical as was the work of the guild, the Comacine of Lombard times was nevertheless a fine civil architect. He worked as willingly for the prince in palace-building and...

After the Carlovingian dynasty had withdrawn from Italy, the country had two or three centuries of troublous times, in which very few people thought of church-building, and if t...

The saints or early missionaries seem to be as closely connected with the first church-building in Ireland as they were in Gaul, Normandy, and England; only by some curious circ...

The heading of this chapter implies nothing that can impugn the claims of the Teutons to the perfecting of the Gothic style, which claims are undoubtedly fair. It only implies t...

The Comacines were always fine fortress builders from the early times, when they fortified not only their own island and city against the Goths, and against their civil foes at...