Bertoldo di Giovanni

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Bertoldo di Giovanni (* after 1420 in Florence , † in December 1491 in Poggio a Caiano in the Villa Medici ) was a Florentine sculptor and medalist of the Renaissance .

Life

Bertoldo di Giovanni was a student of Donatello , worked for a long time in the workshop of his master and after his death in 1466 carried out works that were left unfinished, including the bronze pulpit reliefs from the life of Christ in San Lorenzo in Florence. Later he became head and teacher of the school for painters and especially for sculptors, which the splendid Lorenzo de 'Medici had built in his garden. Bertoldo was also the overseer of the antiquities there. The most important sculptors of their time, including Michelangelo , Baccio da Montelupo , Rustici and Sansovino, studied at this school .

plant

Mehmed II , medal by the Italian Renaissance artist Bertoldo di Giovanni. Galvano .
Bertoldo di Giovanni, Medal on the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478)

A number of his excellent medals had previously been incorrectly attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo .

literature

  • Charles Seymour jr .:  Bertoldo di Giovanni. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 9:  Berengario – Biagini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1967.
  • James David Draper: Bertoldo di Giovanni. Sculptor of the Medici household. Critical reappraisal and catalog raisonné. University of Missouri Press, Columbia MO et al. 1992, ISBN 0-8262-0819-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertoldo di Giovanni. The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, accessed April 26, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Bertoldo di Giovanni. Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed April 26, 2015 .
  3. ^ Leonard Forrer : Bertoldo di Giovanni. In: Leonard Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Volume 1. Revised. Spink & Son, London 1904, pp. 176-178 .
personal data
SURNAME Bertoldo di Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor (Florence)
DATE OF BIRTH between 1435 and 1440
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH December 1491
Place of death Poggio a Caiano