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Baccio Bandinelli was a Florentine Mannerist sculptor whose Michelangelo-influenced works were favoured by the Medici in the second quarter of the 16th century. Bandinelli was trained as a goldsmith by his father, Michelangelo di Viviani de’ Bandini, who was patronized by the Medici family.
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Baccio Bandinelli Italian. 1539–40. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 503. In 1534, in rivalry with Michelangelo, Baccio Bandinelli carved the colossal Hercules and Cacus, a marble group that confronted the older sculptor’s famous David (finished in 1504) on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
FLORENCE — The 16th-century art historian Giorgio Vasari gave his near-contemporary Baccio Bandinelli one of the longest and most conflicted of all the entries in his encyclopedic “Lives of the...
Jul 14, 2023 · A favorite of the powerful Medici family, Baccio Bandinelli (1493–1560) was, next to Michelangelo, one of the most important sculptors in 16th-century Florence. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Four Male Heads (c. 1534), a drawing that conveys in two dimensions and on a small scale the presence and power of monumental sculpture.
Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Bartolommeo di Michelangelo de’ Bandi, Baccio Brandini Date of birth 1488 Date of death 1560
Bandinelli, Baccio. Florence, 1493 - Florence, 1560. Bandinelli was, after Michelangelo (1474-1564), the leading Florentine sculptor of the period.
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Biography. Bartolomeo Brandini, called Baccio Bandinelli (born in Florence between 1488 and 1493; died in Florence in 1560), the son of a goldsmith, was trained as a sculptor in the workshop of Giovanni Francesco Rustici. After 1512, he was active mainly in Florence under the patronage of the Medici but also in Rome and Genoa (Andrea Doria).
