Tullio Lombardo

Christ the Redeemer, marble relief, attributed to Tullio Lombardo, c. 1500–1520; Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth, Texas

Tullio Lombardo (* around 1455 in Ciona ; † November 17, 1532 there ) was an Italian sculptor and architect of the early Renaissance .

Tullio was a son of Pietro Lombardo , who had lived in Venice since 1460 and was the founder of a Venetian dynasty of sculptors and architects who had a decisive influence on Venetian art in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Tullio was trained in his father's workshop, which he continued with his brother Antonio after his death . From 1499 he ran the workshop independently, as Pietro was busy with the work on the Doge's Palace .

The attribution of sculptures and reliefs to the individual members of the family is fundamentally difficult, especially since the works are usually not dated and signed and several family members were often involved in a building contract.

What is remarkable for Tullio Lombardo is his engagement with the formal language of antiquity. The structure of his tomb for the Doge Andrea Vendramin shows his precise knowledge of ancient architecture and, in the case of sculptures and reliefs, a thorough knowledge of human anatomy and familiarity with details of ancient culture. For example, for the first time in Renaissance sculpture, figures on the Vendramin Tomb wear antique armor that is correct in every detail.

Works

• San Salvatore in Venice, designed and built 1507–1535 by Giorgio Spavento and Tullio Lombardo
• Reliefs at the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice: The healing of Anianus 1487–1489; The baptism of Anianus 1487–1489,
• Adam , around 1490, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Arts
• Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin , around 1495, San Zanipolo , Venice
• Coronation of Mary in the circle of the apostles , around 1500, Cappella Barnabò in the Church of San Giovanni Chrisostomo, Venice,
• Young married couple , relief, around 1510, Ca 'd'Oro in Venice
• Bacchus and Ariadne , around 1519, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

photos

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  San Salvatore in Venice

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  Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo

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  Tomb of the Doge Nicolò Marcello

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  Tomb of the Doge Giovanni Mocenigo

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  Coronation of Mary among the apostles

literature

• Massimo Ambrosetti: Tullio e Antonio Lombardo. In: LaCittà , Lugano September 2008, p. 50.
• Marcello Brusegan: Le chiese di Venezia. Newton Compton, 2008.
• Matteo Ceriana: Opere di Tullio Lombardo diminuite o scomparse (e altre muinuzie). In: Tullio Lombardo. Scultore e architetto nella Venezia del Rinascimento. Atti del convegno di studi, Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, April 4-6, 2006, (Ed.) M. Ceriana, pp. 23-68; M. de Paoli, I Lombardo ei restauri delle sculture antiche dei Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa. In: ibid., Verona 2007, pp. 361-368.
• Laura Damiani Cabrini: Pietro Lombardo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 20, 2010 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
• Alison Luchs: Tullio Lombardo and ideal portrait sculpture in Renaissance Venice. 1490-1530. Cambridge 1995.
• Giorgio Mollisi (ed.): Svizzeri a Venezia nella storia, nell'arte, nella cultura, nell'economia dalla metà del Quattrocento ad oggi. ; Laura Damiani Cabrini, Caratteri di un'affermazione. Scultori e architetti dei “Laghi Lombardi” a Venezia nel Quattrocento, pp. 64–71; T. Tagliabue: Pietro Lombardo a Venezia. L'ordine come ornamento. Pp. 72-83; Idem: Pietro Lombardo (Carona 1435? –Venezia 1515). Pp. 84-89; Alba Scapin: Pietro, Tullio e Antonio Lombardo. I monumenti funebri dei dogi nella chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Pp. 90-97; I. Turretta: Antonio Lombardo (1458-1516). Pp. 98-103; Idem: Tullio Lombardo (1455-1532). Pp. 104-110. In: Arte & Storia. Anno 8. No. 40, Lugano September – October 2008.
• Alba Scapin: Tre santi senza ancona. Tracce della bottega dei Lombardo a Bergamo. In: Giorgio Mollisi (ed.), Svizzeri a Bergamo ... In: Arte & Storia, Anno 10, numero 44, Lugano September – ottobre 2009, pp. 84–89.
• Giovanna Valenzano: L'architettura mendicante a Venezia: Santi Giovanni e Paolo e Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. In: “Il secolo di Giotto nel Veneto.” (Eds.) G. Valenzano, F. Toniolo, Venezia 2007, pp. 527-540, especially in p. 351.

Web links

Commons : Tullio Lombardo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tullio Lombardo (Italian) in www.treccani.it
• Tullio Lombardo. In: Sikart