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Rogerius
( fl mid-12th century). Italian sculptor. His name appears only once, in association with his son Robertus (see ROBERTUS (ii)), in an undated inscription on the ciborium of the abbey church of S Clemente al Vomano (Abruzzi). The ciborium, made of limestone and stucco, consists of four columns bearing richly carved capitals and hanging arches with pendant animal heads; above, the superimposed square-based polygonal roofs are decorated with horseshoe arcading and crowned by griffins. The canopy is densely carved with complex interlace of Lombard derivation and intricate inhabited foliage, carried out in low relief with deeply cut backgrounds. The ciborium cannot be far in date from the similarly carved pulpit in S Maria in Valle Porclaneta, near Rosciolo (Abruzzi), which is signed by Robertus and NICODEMUS and dated 1150. The absence of Rogerius’s name on the latter may indicate that he was dead by then. It is impossible to ascertain the importance of Rogerius’s contribution to this local workshop; clearly the greater prominence given to his son Robertus in the inscription at S Clemente al Vomano suggests that it may have been the younger man who trained Nicodemus.
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