Andrea Riccio

Andrea Riccio

Andrea Riccio (c. 1470 – 1532) was an Italian sculptor and occasional architect, whose real name was Andrea Briosco, but is usually known by his soubriquet meaning "curly"; he is also known as Il Riccio and Andrea Crispus ("curly" in Latin). He is mainly known for small bronzes, often practical objects such as inkwells, door knockers or fire-dogs, exquisitely sculpted and decorated in a classicising Renaissance style.

He was born at Padua, and first trained as a goldsmith by his father, Ambrogio di Cristoforo Briosco. He later began to study bronze casting under Bartolomeo Bellano, a pupil of Donatello. As an architect, he is known for the church of Santa Giustina in his native city. His masterpieces are the bronze Paschal candelabrum in the choir in Basilica of Sant'Antonio at Padua (1515), and the two bronze reliefs (1507) of "David dancing before the Ark" and "Judith and Holofernes" in the same church. His bronze and marble tomb of the physician "Girolamo della Torre" in San Fermo at Verona was beautifully decorated with reliefs, which were taken away by the French and are now in the Louvre. His smaller, easily transportable, works appealed to collectors across Europe.

External links

* [http://collections.frick.org/THA151*1 Six works from the Frick]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/scbz/hod_1982.45.htm satyr in the Metropolitan]
* [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=79100 3 plaques from the NGA Washington]
* [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/search/results.html?_creators=ULAN5499&display=Riccio%2c+Andrea+%28Andrea+Briosco%29 6 works from the Courtauld Institute photo collection]


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