Niccolò Tribolo
Niccolò Tribolo or Niccolò di Raffaello di Niccolò dei Pericoli , called Il Tribolo (* around 1500 in Florence ; † September 7, 1550 ) was a Florentine sculptor, architect and garden designer.
Tribolo completed his apprenticeship with Andrea Sansovino . Giorgio Vasari names numerous youthful works Tribolos (statues, fountains etc.), but they can no longer be found. Tribolo traveled to Venice with Benvenuto Cellini (Cellini calls him Tribolino in his autobiography ), but returned to Florence in 1517.
There he designed, among other things, the festive decorations for the visit of Emperor Charles V in 1534 , designed the burial chapel of Eleonore of Toledo and the renovation of the Villa Medici (Poggio a Caiano) .
Tribolo gained the greatest reputation as the garden architect of numerous Medici villas, such as the Villa Medici La Petraia or the Villa Medici von Castello , and her extraordinary Grotta degli Animali (1536) with sculptures by Giambologna . Tribolo's gardens gained drama thanks to the hydraulic innovations by Piero da San Casciano . The Boboli Garden in Florence (1549–50) is considered to be his masterpiece .
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| SURNAME | Tribolo, Niccolò |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pericoli, Niccolo di Raffaello di Niccolo dei; Tribolo, Il |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Florentine sculptor, architect and garden designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1550 |