Antonio Rossellino
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Antonio Gamberelli (1427–1479),Italian Renaissance sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the sculptor and architect Bernardo Rossellino.
Born in
Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence
(1461–1467).
The portrait bust of
Francesco Nori, who fell by the stab intended for Lorenzo de' Medici. Other reliefs of the Madonna and Child are in the Via della Spada, Florence, and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In the latter place is the bust of Giovanni di San Miniato, a doctor of arts and medicine, signed and dated 1456. Working in conjunction with Mino da Fiesole, Rossellino executed the reliefs of the Assumption of Mary and the Martyrdom of St. Stephen for the pulpit at Prato. A marble bust of the boy Baptist in the Pinacoteca, Faenza, and a Christ Child in the Louvre
are attributed to Rossellino by some authorities.
Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Rossellino in his Lives.
References and sources
- References
- ISBN 0500237018
- King Ferrante of Naplesby his concubine Diana Guardato, and Maria was married Antonio Todeschini Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi.
- Sources
This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article "Antonio di Matteo di Domenico Rosselino" by M.L. Handley, a publication now in the public domain.
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