Andrea Ferrucci

Bust of Marsilio Ficino by Andrea Ferrucci, in the Duomo of Florence

Andrea Ferrucci (1465 — 1526), also known as Andrea di Piero Ferruzzi and as Andrea da Fiesole was an Italian sculptor who was born in Fiesole, Italy in 1465. He was a first cousin once removed of the artist Francesco di Simone Ferrucci (1437-1493).

According to Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Andrea Ferrucci was a student of Michele Maini from Fiesole. He was working for King Ferdinand I of Naples in 1487 and married the daughter of Antonio di Giorgio Marchesi (1451-1522) the King’s architect and military engineer. In 1519, for Archbishop Tamás Bakócz (†l521) he provided the marble altar for the Bakócz chapel at Esztergom, which is the earliest and most significant surviving Renaissance building in Hungary. His half-length bust of Marsilio Ficino (illustration) adorns Santa Maria del Fiore, the Duomo of Florence.

Andrea Ferrucci was the teacher of Silvio Cosini and died in Florence in 1526.

References

• Apfelstadt, Eric, "Andrea Ferrucci's 'Crucifixion' Altar-Piece in the Victoria and Albert Museum", The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 135, No. 1089 (Dec., 1993), 807-817.
• Vasari, Giorgio, Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, many editions and translations.
• Witt Library, A Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, London, Mansell Information Publishing, 1978.