Giovanni Francesco Rustici
Giovan Francesco Rustici,[1] or Giovanni Francesco Rustici,[2] (1475–1554)[1] was an Italian Renaissance painter[3] and sculptor.
He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income. Rustici profited from study of the Medici sculpture in the garden at San Marco, and according to
Vasari tells of the elaborate suppers given by Rustici and his comrades.
Rustici's Mercury was commissioned by
At the time of the siege of Florence, 1528, he went to France, where he was pensioned by King Francis I but after the king's death died in poverty at Tours.
Baccio Bandinelli apprenticed with Rustici.
Some glazed terracotta bas-reliefs in the technique familiar from the della Robbia workshops, are attributed to Rustici, notably a Madonna and Child in the Bargello and a Saint John the Baptist in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Major works
- Bust of Boccaccio (1503) for Giovanni Boccaccio's funeral monument at Certaldo [2].
- John the Baptist with the Pharisee and the Levite. Three figures on the Tino da Camaino.
- Mercury taking Flight. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (later Palazzo Medici, Florence, probably in 1515. It was probably installed above the fountain bowl that originally held Donatello's 'Judith'.
- The Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist. Bas-relief marble and onyx tondo. Louvre Museum.
- Virgin and Child Bas-relief bronze plaque, attributed to Rustici. Louvre Museum.
- Battle scene. Terracotta. A horseman and four assailants, showing the influence of Leonardo's drawings. Louvre Museum.
- Fountain, the design attributed to Leonardo.[8] Formerly at Woolbeding House, Surrey (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Notes and references
- ^ a b "Rùstici, Giovan Francesco". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ Avery, Charles. "Rustici, Giovanni Francesco". Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 November 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ No paintings securely attributed to him survive.
- ^ Other sculptors from Verrocchio's atelier included Francesco di Simone and Agnolo di Polo.
- ^ Vasari, Vita of Giovanni Francesaco Rustici.
- ^ The connection to Rustici's Mercury of this figure by a sculptor "close to Donatello" was made by James David Draper, Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art), No. 1983/1984 (1983-84), pp. 26-44
- ^ [1]Press release Archived 2006-09-26 at the Wayback Machine; the sculpture was illustrated on the cover of The Burlington Magazine 139 No. 1137 (December 1997).
- ^ Attributed to Leonardo by John Pope-Hennessy, in Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook 4.
Further reading
- Minning, Martina (2010). Giovan Francesco Rustici (1475-1554): Untersuchungen zu Leben und Werk des Florentiner Bildhauers. Volume 15 of Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (in German). Münster: Rhema-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-930454-84-6.
- Mozzati, Tommaso (2008). Giovanfrancesco Rustici: le Compagnie del paiuolo e della cazzuola ; arte, letteratura, festa nell'età della maniera. Volume 22 of Studi: Fondazione Carlo Marchi (in Italian). Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore. ISBN 978-88-222-5725-3.
External links
- Louvre Museum official site: Giovanni Francesco Rustici
- English translation of chapter on Rustici in Vasari's Le Vite Archived 2006-10-31 at the Wayback Machine