Civitali, Matteo (1436–1501)

Italian architect and sculptor. He was born and died in Lucca, and most of his work remains in and around the city. The cathedral there contains tombs by Civitali, a pulpit (1494–98), and the Tempietto del Volto Santo (1484), an octagonal marble shrine housing a wooden image of Christ traditionally believed to have been the work of the biblical figure Nicodemus.

Outside Lucca, Civitali has a lectern and candelabra in the cathedral at Pisa and statues of Old Testament figures in Genoa Cathedral. Civitali was also the original architect of Lucca's Palazzo Pretorio (1492).