Pietro Torrigiano

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San Jerónimo (Saint Jerome) in the Museum of Seville

Pietro Torrigiano (also: Pietro Torrigiani or Pietro Torrisano ; * November 24, 1472 in Florence , † in August 1528 in Seville ) was a Florentine Renaissance sculptor and medalist .

Life

He spent most of his life wandering. Torrigiano worked in the rooms of the Borgias in Rome (1493), in Bologna and Siena . In 1509 he went to Antwerp , where he was temporarily in the service of Margaret of Austria . In 1510 he came to England , where he made his best work, the graves of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York in Westminster Abbey (1512-18). His bronze and marble statues are considered the first authentic examples of Italian Renaissance art in England. In 1519 Torrigiano visited Florence, returned to England, and finally went to Spain , where he worked in Seville. There he was arrested by the Inquisition and charged with heresy . He died in prison.

In Spain in 1522 he made the fine terracotta statues of St.  Jerome and the "Virgin with the Child" (both are now in the Museum of Seville ). Two male portrait busts exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art illustrate his refined and dignified style.

Trivia

When Michelangelo was a boy he drew with others in the Florentine church of Santa Maria del Carmine in the chapel painted by Masaccio , and he was in the habit of mocking everyone who drew there. At some point it became too much for Pietro Torrigiano, as Benvenuto Cellini reported; he clenched his fist and hit Michelangelo on the nose so hard that it broke - and that's how he drew Michelangelo for his life. In Giorgio Vasari's Vita the story is told a little differently. Torrigiano is said to have struck his pupil Michelangelo there out of envy.

Web links

Commons : Pietro Torrigiano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Torrigiano. Volume VI. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1916, p. 123 .
personal data
SURNAME Torrigiano, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Torrigiani, Pietro; Torrisano, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Renaissance sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1472
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH August 1528
Place of death Seville