Giovanni di Balduccio
Giovanni di Balduccio was an Italian sculptor who worked in Lombardy and Tuscany during the first half of the 14th century .
It is documented for the first time in 1317, when he worked at the Pisa Cathedral as a student of Andrea Pisano . His first signed work is the pulpit of S. Casciano in Florence . Various tombs in Florence and Sarzana follow . Around 1335 he was called to Milan by Azzo Visconti and carried out the Arca di S. Pietro Martire in Sant'Eustorgio for him. Around this time he also founded a school, of which Bonino da Campione was one of the students . After Visconti's death, Balduccio was entrusted with erecting a memorial for him, some of which can still be seen in the gallery of the Marquise Trivulzi in Milan. In 1349 he received a call to Pisa as Capomaestro , which he did not follow. Then his track is lost.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Charles Callahan Perkins: Tuscan sculptors: their lives, works and times . Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Balduccio, Giovanni . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . Volume 1, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 236
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balduccio, Giovanni di |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balducci, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1317 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1349 |