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Peregrino da Salerno [Peregrino da Sesso]
( fl 1259–83). South Italian sculptor. His name is known from inscriptions on church furnishings in southern Italy. In his signed reliefs (two panels, originally from a pulpit, showing episodes from the story of Jonah, and the base of a paschal candlestick), made during the episcopate of Giovanni III (1259–83) for Sessa Aurunca Cathedral (Campania), Peregrino refined the local Romanesque artistic traditions into a more classical idiom. Although constrained by their frames, his figures are given movement and dimension by skilful undercutting and isolation within the sculptural field. A lively representation of Jonah and the Whale shows the whale as a greatly enlarged, but carefully rendered, replica of a local fish. Peregrino’s style clearly derives from the artistic milieu of the southern Italian court of Frederick II, where Classical works were studied and imitated in sculpture and architecture, and the careful observation of nature was encouraged in manuscript illumination.
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