Clemente Bandinelli

Pietà in the Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Clemente Bandinelli (* 1534 in Florence , † 1555 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor.

Life

Clemente Bandinelli was the son of the sculptor and painter Baccio Bandinelli , who had also trained him. Probably at the beginning of the 1550s he made a portrait bust of Cosimo I de Medici based on a model his father's . From this both the tarracotta model (Florence, Collezione Loeser) and the marble version (Florence, Piazza San Lorenzo) have been preserved. In 1554 he began to make a marble pietà , also based on a model made by his father . During the work there were serious disputes with his father, as a result of which he left the sculpture unfinished and traveled to Rome in 1555, where he died shortly afterwards. Baccio Bandinelli completed the unfinished work that is now in Florence ( SS. Annunziata ).

Works

• formerly Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
  • Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli. (so badly damaged during the Second World War that only two fragments of the beard have survived)
• Florence, Collezione Loeser
  • Portrait bust of Cosimo I de Medici. (or by Ridolfo Sirigatti )
• Florence, Piazza San Lorenzo
  • Portrait bust of Cosimo I de Medici. (? identified by Heikamp, ​​but perhaps it can be seen in the bust of Francesco I by Giovanni Bandini)
• Florence, SS. Annunziata
  • Pietà. (completed by Baccio Bandinelli)

literature

• Detlef Heikamp : The sculptures of Clemente Bandinelli. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Vol. 9, No. 2, 1960, ISSN  0342-1201 , pp. 130-136.
• S. Günther: Bandinelli, Clemente . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , p. 569.