- Antonio Rossellino
Antonio Gamberelli (1427 – c. 1478/1481), nicknamed Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was an Italian sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the painter
Bernardo Rossellino .Born in
Settignano , nearFlorence , he was the youngest of five brothers, sculptors and stonecutters. He is said to have studied underDonatello and is remarkable for the sharpness and fineness of hisbas-relief . His most important works are the funeral monument ofBeato Marcolino (1458) for theBlackfriar Church (today a museum),Forlì , and the monument ofCardinal Jacopo ofPortugal in theBasilica di San Miniato al Monte ,Florence (1461–1467).The portrait bust of Matteo Palmieri in the
Bargello is signed and dated 1468. In 1470 he made the monument for the Duchess of Amalfi, Mary of Aragon, in the Church of Monte Oliveto,Naples ; the relief of the Nativity over the altar in the same place is also probably his. A statue ofJohn the Baptist as a boy is in the Bargello; also a delicate relief of theMadonna and Child , an "Ecce Homo ", and a bust ofFrancesco Sassetti . The so-called "Madonna del Latte" on a pillar in the Church of Santa Croce is a memorial to Francesco Neri, who fell by the stab intended forLorenzo de' Medici . Other reliefs of the Madonna and Child are in the Via della Spada, Florence, and in theVictoria and Albert Museum ,London . In the latter place is the bust of Giovanni di San Miniato, a doctor of arts and medicine, signed and dated 1456. Working in conjunction withMino da Fiesole , Rossellino executed the reliefs of the "Assumption of Mary " and the "Martyrdom of St. Stephen" for the pulpit atPrato . A marble bust of the boy Baptist in the Pinacoteca,Faenza , and a Christ Child in theLouvre are attributed to Rossellino by some authorities.Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Rossellino in his "Lives".External links
* [http://43.1911encyclopedia.org/R/RO/ROSSELLINO_ANTONIO.htm 1911 Encyclopedia (old)]
"This article incorporates text from the 1913 "
Catholic Encyclopedia " article " [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16072a.htm Antonio di Matteo di Domenico Rosselino] " by M.L. Handley, a publication now in thepublic domain ."
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