Vincenzo Danti

Sculpture group Baptism of Christ by Andrea Sansovino and Vincenzo Danti. Around 1505 Sansovino left Florence for other commissions, so that he only completed St. John. Danti worked out the Christ based on Sansovino's sketches, until his death in 1576 the angel was only available as a stucco and terracotta model. It was not until 1792 that Innocenzo Spinazzi completed the angel in marble.

Vincenzo Danti (* 1530 in Perugia ; † May 26, 1576 ibid), brother of Ignazio Danti , was an Italian sculptor, goldsmith, military architect and poet of the Florentine school.

For the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence he designed the beheading of John the Baptist above the south gate and continued Andrea Sansovino's sculptural group The Baptism of Christ above the east gate. Other works are the bronze figure of Pope Julius III. in Perugia and a marble group at the entrance to the Boboli Gardens in Florence. In 1560 he measured himself against the established sculptors Bartolomeo Ammanati and Benvenuto Cellini in a competition to build the Neptune Fountain on the Piazza della Signoria . He was one of the first professors at the Accademia del Disegno in Perugia and also a city architect in Perugia.

literature

• Charles Davis , Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi (eds.): I grandi bronzi del battistero. L'arte di Vincenzo Danti discepolo di Michelangelo. Exhibition cat. Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, April 16 - September 7, 2008. Giunti, Florence 2008.
• Charles Avery: Studies in Italian Sculpture . The Pindar Press, London 2001. ISBN 1-899828-31-1

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