Giovanni di Stefano (sculptor)

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Giovanni di Stefano (* 1444 in Siena ; † approx. 1506) was an Italian sculptor.

biography

He was the son of the painter Stefano di Giovanni, called Sassetta . He was mainly active as a sculptor and created many works in Siena, such as the marble wolves in front of the Cathedral of Siena and the Porta Romana and in the cathedral the inlay of Hermes Trismegistus and the Sibyls of Cumae and Delphi (1487) on the floor as well as the marble statue of St. Ansanus in the chapel of St. John the Baptist (1487) and two angels with bronze candlesticks (1496–1497) on the main altar.

As an “artist of the weak temperament”, he was particularly inspired by Francesco di Giorgio and Vecchietta .

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  Hermes Trismegistus

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  Sibyl of Delphi

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  Angel with candlestick

literature

• Bernd Curt Kreplin : Giovanni di Stefano da Siena . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 144–145 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Susanna Partsch : Giovanni di Stefano da Siena . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 55, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22795-0 , p. 91.

Web links

Commons : Giovanni di Stefano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Giovanni di Stefano in the Enciclopedia Treccani