Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10): Tribolo to Il SodomaVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10): Tribolo to Il Sodoma
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Arriving in Florence, Baccio found that the Duke had sent the sculptor
Tribolo to Carrara to quarry the marble for the fountains of Castello
and the tomb of Signor Giovanni; and he so wrought upon the Duke that
he wrested the tomb of Signor Giovanni from the hands of Tribolo,
demonstrating to his Excellency that the marbles for such a work were
already in great measure in Florence. Thus, little by little, he
penetrated into the confidence of the Duke, insomuch that both for
this reason and for his arrogance everyone was afraid of him. He then
proposed to the Duke that the tomb of Signor Giovanni should be
erected in the Chapel of the Neroni, a narrow, confined, and mean
place, in S. Lorenzo, being too ignorant or not wishing to suggest
that for so great a Prince it was proper that a new chapel should be
built on purpose. He also prevailed on the Duke to demand from
Michelagnolo, on Baccio's behalf, many pieces of marble that he had in
Florence; and when the Duke had obtained them from Michelagnolo, and
Baccio from the Duke, among those marbles being some blocked out
figures and a statue carried well on towards completion by
Michelagnolo, Bandinelli, taking them all over, hacked and broke to
pieces everything that he could find, thinking that by so doing he was
avenging himself on Michelagnolo and causing him displeasure. He
found, moreover, in the same room in S. Lorenzo wherein Michelagnolo
worked, two statues in one block of marble, representing Hercules
crushing Antaeus, which the Duke was having executed by the sculptor
Fra Giovanni Agnolo. These were well advanced; but Baccio, saying to
the Duke that the friar had spoilt that marble, broke it into many
pieces.
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