GORO DI GREGORIO

(b. ~1290 Siena, d. ~1340 ?)

Italian sculptor and goldsmith. He is documented in Siena, Massa Marittima and Messina. He was the son of Goro di Guccio Ciuti (d before 1311), a Florentine sculptor who, with Lapo and Donato, assistants of Nicola Pisano, was granted citizenship in Siena in 1271. Goro di Guccio Ciuti’s sons Neri and Ambrogio, of whom nothing further is known, followed in their father’s footsteps, as did Goro. His main work is the reliquary of S. Cerbone (1324) in the cathedral of Massa Marittima.

Arrival of the Ambassadors from Rome

The picture shows a detail of the relief on the Tomb of Saint Cerbone, representing the arrival of the ambassadors from Romeasking St Cerbone to go to the Pope.

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Madonna of the Crippled (detail)

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St Cerbone Being Thrown to the Bears (detail)

The picture shows a detail of the relief on the Tomb of Saint Cerbone, representing the scene of St Cerbone being thrown to the bears by the barbarian Totila. The beasts can be seen at the Bishop’s feet, the barbarian is in the box on the left.

Goro di Gregorio was an artist from the Sienese school of sculptors formed in Siena under Nicola and Giovanni Pisano in the 13th- and 14th-century. Other sculptors were Tino di Camaino, Agostino di Giovanni, Gano di Siena and Lorenzo Maitani.

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Tomb of St Cerbone

The sides of the sarcophagus are covered with reliefs representing scenes from the life of the saint. These scenes are characterized by an almost naive attempt to carve the figures in the round, and to endow the buildings in the piled-up settings, otherwise almost devoid of any depth, with a straightforward, three-dimensional actuality.

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