Simone Bianco

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In the Bode Museum, Berlin

Simone Bianco , actually: Simone di Niccolò Bianco , (verifiable from 1512 to 1553) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

Simone Bianco comes from the province of Arezzo and was born in Loro Ciuffenna . His exact date of birth, further origin and education are unknown. He was first mentioned in Venice in 1512 , where he and the stonemason Martino dal Vedello were commissioned to produce four large marble reliefs with depictions of the Old Testament for the Brotherhood of the Holy Sacrament in Treviso . This job apparently never went through. He must have been very active in the following years, as Marcantonio Michiel mentioned several works by his hand in Venetian collections in 1532. His portrait heads were particularly popular, of which Venetian merchants sent several examples to the French court, and which are presumably identical to the busts preserved today in the Louvre and in the Castle of Compiègne . The name Bianco appears several times in the writings of Pietro Aretino , with whom the sculptor was close friends. On December 20, 1547 he drew up his will. In December 1553 he was still alive.

Through Simone Bianco, the making of portrait busts developed into a separate, recognized art form in Venice that did not exist in this form before. Six signed marble busts from his hand have been preserved, to which modern research has assigned further works. Some of the newly assigned works are made of bronze and are particularly controversial, as no evidence has emerged that the artist worked with this material. None of his works is dated.

Works

The particularly controversial works made of bronze can be recognized by the prefix “bronze bust”.

  • Berlin, sculpture collection
    • Bust of Julius Caesar
    • Bust of a young woman
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Boston , Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Budapest, Szépmuveszéti Muzeum
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Compiègne, Château
    • Bust of a man, (loan from the Louvre in Paris)
  • Florence, Museo Nazionale Bargello
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Copenhagen , Statens Museum for Kunst
    • Bust of a woman
  • London, Victoria & Albert Museum
    • Kneeling angel with candlestick
  • Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Madrid, Prado Museum
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Modena, Galleria Estense
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • New York, Untermyer Collection
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Padua, Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d'Arte
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Paris, Musee National du Louvre
    • Bust of a man (so-called Cicero)
    • Bust of a man
  • Rome, Palazzo Venezia
    • Bust of Julius Caesar
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Stockholm, National Museum
    • Bust of a man
  • St. Petersburg
    • Bust of Pietro Aretino
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Venice, Museo Archeologico
    • Bust of Julius Caesar
    • Bust of a man (so-called Caracalla)
    • Bust of Marcus Aurelius
  • Washington, National Gallery of Art
    • Bronze bust of a man
  • Vienna, Art History Museum
    • Bust of a man
    • Bronze bust of a man
    • Bronze bust of a child
  • Whereabouts unknown
    • Putto with a goose, (1920 in the Roman art market)
    • Bust of a woman, (attributed - presumably the work of a student - 1971 Pino Donati Gallery in Lugano, then in a Swiss private collection)
    • Bust of a Woman, (1992 at the Alex Wengraf Gallery in London)

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personal data
SURNAME Bianco, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bianco, Simone di Niccolò
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Loro Ciuffenna
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century