Andrea Sansovino

Portrait in the Vasari edition of 1568

Sculptural group Baptism of Christ by Andrea Sansovino and Vincenzo Danti at the Baptistery of San Giovanni . Around 1505 Sansovino left Florence for other commissions, so that he only dedicated St. John completed. Danti worked out the Christ based on Sansovino's sketches, until his death in 1576 the angel was only available as a stucco and terracotta model. It was not until 1792 that Innocenzo Spinazzi completed the angel in marble.

Andrea Sansovino , actually Andrea di Niccolò di Menco di Muccio , (* around 1460 in Monte San Savino near Arezzo ; † 1529 there ) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

According to Giorgio Vasari , when he was a farm boy herding cattle, he was met by a noble Florentine who recognized his talent when he saw him fashion animals out of earth. Andrea Sansovino, usually just called Sansovino, became an apprentice of Antonio del Pollaiuolo and trained next to Leonardo da Vinci . Under these influences, the reliefs with the coronation of Mary, the Annunciation and the Pietà in Santo Spirito in Florence were created .

Around 1493, King John II of Portugal called him to Lisbon , where he worked as an architect and sculptor for nine years. Returning to Florence in 1500 , he began the marble group of the Baptism of Christ above the east portal of the Baptistery of San Giovanni , which is unique in terms of nobility of form and expression at that time, but was not completed by him, as he was an order for the Cathedral of San Giovanni Lorenzo of Genoa (statues of the Madonna and the Baptist, 1503) and was then called by Pope Julius II to Rome around 1505 to carry out the tombs of the cardinals Girolamo Basso della Rovere and Ascagnio Sforza for the choir of Santa Maria del Popolo .

In their arrangement they follow the taste of the fifteenth century , which found its highest artistic expression in them, but with their individual painterly forms they already prepare for the mannerism of the later period; they are the most splendid funerary monuments which Rome possesses.

In 1512 Sansovino created the group of St. Anne in Sant'Agostino in Rome.

From 1513 to 1522 he was commissioned by Leo X and from 1523 by Clement VII to decorate the holy house of Loreto . He worked the reliefs of the Annunciation and the Nativity and the statue of Jeremiah himself, the rest of the work was done by various artists under his supervision.

Andrea Sansovino died at the age of 69 in 1529 in his hometown of Monte San Savino.

Grasping the beauty of antiquity with a free mind, he combined it with a solid study of nature; his figures show deep feeling, but always within the bounds of moderation. He trained many students. One of these, Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti , later took the surname Sansovino.

literature

Paul Schönfeld: Andrea Sansovino and his school for artists and art lovers . Metzler, Stuttgart 1881.
George Haydn Huntley : Andrea Sansovino, Sculptor and Architect of the Italian Renaissance . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1935; Greenwood, Westport, Conn. 1971, ISBN 0-8371-5609-2 .
Nicoletta Baldini and Renato Giulietti (Eds.): Andrea Sansovino. I documenti Maschietto & Musolino, Florence 1999, ISBN 88-86404-94-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Sansovino, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Contucci, Andrea (maiden name); Contucci, Andrea di Domenico; Monte San Savino, Andrea dal; Sansovino, Andrea there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monte San Savino near Arezzo
DATE OF DEATH	1529
Place of death	Monte San Savino near Arezzo

[junge-1] Vasari, giorgio: Le Vite de 'piú eccellenti pittori scultori ed architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri . Florence, Torrentino, 1550 (revised 1568)

[carteggio-2] Barocchi, Paola: "Il Carteggio di Michelangelo". Florence, Sansoni, 1973