Andrea Sansovino
Baptistery of San Giovanni in Volterra
Andrea dal Monte Sansovino or Andrea Contucci del Monte San Savino (c. 1467 – 1529) was an Italian sculptor active during the High Renaissance. His pupils include Jacopo Sansovino (no relation).
Biography
He was the son of Domenico Contucci of Monte Sansovino, and was born at Monte San Savino near Arezzo, hence his name, which is usually softened to Sansovino.[1]
He was a pupil of
Santo Spirito at Florence, all executed between the years 1488 and 1491.[1]
From 1493 to 1500 Andrea worked in
Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence (1505). This group was, however, finished by the weaker hand of Vincenzo Danti. In this period he executed the marble font at Volterra, with good reliefs of the Four Virtues and the Baptism of Christ.[1]
In 1504 Sansovino was invited to Rome by
Ascanio Maria Sforza and Girolamo Basso della Rovere for the retro-choir of Santa Maria del Popolo. The architectural parts of these monuments and their sculptured foliage are extremely graceful and executed with the most minute delicacy, but the recumbent effigies show the beginning of a serious decline in taste. These tombs became models which for many years were copied by most later sculptors with increasing exaggerations of their defects.[1]
In 1512, while still in
Tribolo and others of his assistants and pupils. Though the general effect is rich and magnificent, the individual pieces of sculpture are both dull and feeble.[according to whom?] The earlier reliefs, those by Sansovino himself, are the best.[1]
Works
- Andrea Sansovino
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St. John the Baptist by Andrea Sansovino, early 1500s, (Adam, Zaccariah, and Habakkuk, by Matteo Cividali) -
Baptism Christ,Battistero di San Giovanni, -
The Gates of Paradise,Battistero di San Giovanni, -
Ascanio Sforza's tomb -
Madonna col bambino -
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References
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sansovino, Andrea Contucci del Monte". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 183.
- Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Sansovino in his Lives.
- George Haydn Huntley (1971). Andrea Sansovino, sculptor and architect of the Italian Renaissance. ISBN 0-8371-5609-2.
External links
Media related to Andrea Sansovino at Wikimedia Commons
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