Pelegrinus

Almost everything known about this sculptor comes from his own signature. On a marble relief from Verona Cathedral, the front of a ciborium, the stone canopy that stood over the high altar, he carved his name, Pelegrinus. It comes from the Latin peregrinus, a stranger or a pilgrim, and some sources write it in that form.

The Castelvecchio museum, which now shows the relief, places him in the 1120s, just before Nicholaus, the sculptor who signed the portals of San Zeno and of the cathedral itself in the following decade. In the museum's view Pelegrinus was probably the artist who brought the new Romanesque way of carving to Verona, even if his figures still stand rather stiff and still. Some scholars have also given him a side portal of the cathedral, though no signature there settles the question.