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Baccio da Montelupo

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Baccio credit for having shown supreme mastery, and having made a solid and beautiful casting. These labors endured in that profession, brought him the name of a good and even excellent master; and that figure is esteemed more than ever at the present day by all craftsmen, who hold it to be most beautiful.
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It is said that when he had made the figure in clay, all who saw the arrangement of the armatures, and the moulds laid upon them, held it to be a beautiful piece of work, recognizing the rare ingenuity of Baccio in such an enterprise; and when they had seen it cast with the utmost facility, they gave
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The crowning moment of his career perhaps came with the commission in 1514 from a competition sponsored by the Florence silk merchants guild to create a statue in bronze for one of the remaining empty niches on the facade of
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In 1506, Baccio received a commission for several sculptures for the Benedictine abbey of
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Link to on-line biography of Baccio and Raffaello da Montelupo from Vasari's
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surrounding a fresco of the Virgin Mary in the church of Sant'Agostino at
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Baccio received his first important commission from the friars of the
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and pursued the study of sculpture, attending the "scuola" of
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beside works by Italian notables of the preceding century:
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Bartolomeo Sinibaldi


Basilica of San Domenico

Orsanmichele
Italian Renaissance
Raffaello da Montelupo
Vasari
Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori
Montelupo Fiorentino
Florence
Bertoldo di Giovanni
Lorenzo de' Medici
Michelangelo
Giovanni Francesco Rustici
Jacopo Sansovino
Basilica of San Domenico
Bologna
Basilica di San Lorenzo
San Marco
Arezzo
Lastra a Signa
Apostles
Ferrara
San Godenzo
Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele
Donatello
Lorenzo Ghiberti

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