Andrea Riccio
Andrea Riccio (c. 1470 – 1532) was an Italian sculptor and occasional architect, whose real name was Andrea Briosco, but is usually known by his
fire-dogs
, exquisitely sculpted and decorated in a classicising Renaissance style.
He was born at
San Fermo at Verona was beautifully decorated with reliefs, which were taken away by the French and are now in the Louvre.[1] His smaller, easily transportable, works appealed to collectors across Europe.[citation needed] A bronze lamp made by Riccio was a longtime possession of the Rothschild family, and is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]
References
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- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Briosco, Andrea". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 573.
- ^ "The Rothschild Lamp". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrea Briosco.
- Six works from the Frick
- Satyr in the Metropolitan
- Biography of the Artist and link to works attributed in the collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 6 works from the Courtauld Institute photo collection
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