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judgment and excellence proper to him, and went away with many thanks from Giuliano. Not long after, the latter brought Il Tribolo his friend to see what Buonarroti had done, and told him all about it; but because Buonarroti had only sketched them in outline, without any shadow, Bugiardini could not carry them out; so Il Tribolo resolved to help him, and he made some rough models in clay, giving them all that rough force which Michelangelo had put into the drawing; and so he brought them to Giuliano. But this manner did not please Bugiardini's smooth fancy, and as soon as Il Tribolo was gone he took a brush and, dipping it in water, smoothed them all down. Il Tribolo, hearing about it from Giuliano himself, laughed at his honest simplicity, and the work was at last finished, so that none would have known that Michael Angelo had ever looked at it."
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who had been at a loss to draw a file of figures and "foreshorten them so that they should appear all in a row, or how he could find room for them in so narrow a place. Buonarroti, feeling compassion for the poor man, took up a piece of charcoal and sketched a file of naked figures with all the
121:, where they saw some Florentine exiles at an inn, the cautious Tribolo, "the most timorous man that I have ever known, kept on saying: 'Do not look at them or talk to them, if you care to go back to Florence'" In Venice, after several days' journey, it soon appeared that 98:, he was expected to function well as a member of a team; like Buontalenti's, his name has been overshadowed by greater personalities. For example, in the 17th and 18th centuries, connoisseurs attributed to 207:, Tribolo engineered a sequence of terraces with fountains that began at the upper end in the "wild" garden— where the civilizing Medici touch had not yet been felt— with a sculpture of 199:
near Florence, Grand Duke Cosimo entrusted Tribolo from 1536 with the layout of a garden that was to illustrate, with an elaborate iconological program worked out by one of Cosimo's
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the tamed water passed in linear canals to two sculptural fountains placed along the central axis. The marble bases of both were sculpted by Il Tribolo and his assistant
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Niccolò di Raffaello began as an apprentice to a woodcarver but, while still in his teens, was taken up as an assistant by
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and wall fountains, a tribute to Tribolo's bravura as a draughtsman and a sign of Michelangelo's influence on his style.
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with bronze birds from whose beaks water once spurted, sculpted by Giambologna and Ammanati (now in the
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Later additions to one side of the Villa have shifted the original axis of the centre of the villa.
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tells of his trip to Venice with "Tribolino" for whose son he had stood as godfather. In
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had no present work for Niccolò, but invited him to drop in again, at his convenience.
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at Castello that he included a description of the gardens in his travel journal.
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to return to Florence and take up his uncompleted stairs in the vestibule of the
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A symposium on the occasion of Tribolo's cinquecentennial in 2000 was held at
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Doorway reliefs, (1525–27) Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna.
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Web Gallery of Art: Hercules and Antaeus fountain, Villa Castello
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on the central axis: it was completed under the direction of
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Introductory information on the garden of Villa Castello
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to Florence, working on his own. In his autobiography,
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by Ammanati, and Florentia (Florence) as a classical
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Index

Niccolò Pericoli

Mannerist artist
Cosimo I de' Medici
Florence

Villa di Castello
Andrea Sansovino
Giorgio Vasari
Vite
Bernardo Buontalenti
Michelangelo
niches
Venice
Benvenuto Cellini
Bologna
Jacopo Sansovino
Giuliano Bugiardini
Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici
Charles V
Michelangelo
Laurentian Library
Eleonora di Toledo
Poggio a Caiano
Boboli Gardens
Palazzo Pitti
Medici villas
La Petraia
Villa Castello
villa

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