Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10): Tribolo to Il Sodoma — John Shaqi
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
The war finished--during the progress of which Tribolo executed some
works in clay for his friends, and for Andrea del Sarto, his dearest
friend, three figures of wax in the round, of which Andrea availed
himself in painting in fresco, on the Piazza, near the Condotta,
portraits from nature of three captains who had fled with the
pay-chests, depicted as hanging by one foot--Benvenuto, summoned by
the Pope, went to Rome to kiss the feet of his Holiness, and was
placed by him in charge of the Belvedere, with an honourable salary.
In that office, having often conversations with the Pope, Benvenuto,
when the occasion arose, did not fail to extol Tribolo as an excellent
sculptor and to recommend him warmly; insomuch that, the siege
finished, Clement made use of him. For, designing to give completion
to the Chapel of Our Lady at Loreto, which had been begun by Leo and
then abandoned on account of the death of Andrea Contucci of Monte
Sansovino, he ordained that Antonio da San Gallo, who had the charge
of executing that fabric, should summon Tribolo and set him to
complete some of those scenes that Maestro Andrea had left unfinished.
Tribolo, then, thus summoned by San Gallo by order of Clement, went
with all his family to Loreto, whither there likewise went Simone,
called Mosca, a very rare carver of marble, Raffaello da Montelupo,
Francesco da San Gallo the younger, Girolamo Ferrarese the sculptor, a
disciple of Maestro Andrea, Simone Cioli, Ranieri da Pietrasanta, and
Francesco del Tadda, all invited in order to finish that work. And to
Tribolo, in the distribution of the labours, there fell, as the work
of the greatest importance, a scene in which Maestro Andrea had
represented the Marriage of Our Lady.
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