Antonio Rossellino
Antonio Gamberelli (1427â€
"c.1479), nicknamed
Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was a
Florentine sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the painter
Bernardo Rossellino.
Antonio was the youngest of five brothers, sculptors and stonecutters. He is said to have studied under
Donatello and is remarkable for the sharpness and fineness of his
bas-relief. His most important work is the monument of
Cardinal Jacopo of
Portugal in the
Basilica di San Miniato al Monte,
Florence 1461â€"67.
The portrait bust of Matteo Palmieri in the
Bargello is signed and dated 1468. In 1470 he made the monument for the Duchess of Amalfi, Mary of Aragon, in the Church of Monte Oliveto,
Naples; the relief of the
Nativity over the altar in the same place is also probably his. A statue of
John the Baptist as a boy is in the Bargello; also a delicate relief of the
Madonna and Child, an
Ecce Homo, and a bust of
Francesco Sassetti. The so-called
Madonna del Latte on a pillar in the Church of
Santa Croce is a memorial to Francesco Neri, 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 S. 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.
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Quite Famous*
1911 Encyclopedia (old)
