The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)Vasari, Giorgio
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The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Now to return to Agostino and Agnolo, they had many pupils who
produced many works after them in architecture and sculpture in
Lombardy and other places in Italy. Among them was Jacopo Lanfrani of
Venice, who founded S. Francesco of Imola, and executed the
sculptures for the principal door, where he carved his name and the
date, 1343; for the church of S. Domenico at Bologna the same Master
Jacopo made a marble tomb for Gio. Andrea Calduino, doctor of law and
secretary of Pope Clement VI., and another very well executed also in
marble and in the same church for Taddeo Peppoli, protector of the
people and of justice at Bologna. In the same year, that is to say in
1347, after the completion of this tomb, or shortly before, Master
Jacopo returned to his native Venice and there founded the church of
S. Antonio, which was originally of wood, at the request of a
Florentine abbot of the ancient family of the Abati, M. Andrea
Dandolo, being doge at the time. This church was completed in the
year 1349.
Then again Jacobello and Pietro Paolo, Venetians, who were pupils of
Agostino and Agnolo, erected in S. Domenico at Bologna a marble tomb
for M. Giovanni da Lignano, doctor of laws, in the year 1383. All
these and many other sculptors continued for a long space of time to
employ the same manner, so that they filled all Italy with examples
of it. It is further believed that the native of Pesaro, who besides
many other things did the door of the church of S. Domenico in his
native town, with the three marble figures of God the Father, St John
the Baptist and St Mark, was a pupil of Agostino and Agnolo, and the
style of the work gives colour to the supposition. This work was
completed in the year 1385. But since it would take much too long to
enter into particulars of the works made in this style by many
masters of the time, I will let what I have said, in this general
way, suffice, chiefly because they have not exercised a great
influence upon our arts. Yet I thought it good to mention these men,
because even if they do not deserve a long notice, yet they are not
so insignificant as to be altogether passed over in silence.
Stefano, Painter of Florence, and Ugolino of Siena.
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