The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
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The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)
Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
Art -- Italy -- Siena; Duomo di Siena; Pavements, Mosaic
designed and erected a triumphal arch and other decorations, including
a gigantic horse in papier-mâché, in honour of that Emperor.[212] He
was also famous as a worker in bronze,[213] and among the works done
by him in this metal, the most celebrated, now known, are six of the
bronze angels, holding lights, affixed to the columns in the Choir of
the Duomo. For this work he received 11,600 lire from the Opera del
Duomo. According to a contemporary Register of persons buried in the
Duomo, Beccafumi died on the 18th May, 1550, and was buried there:
other authorities state that his death occurred in the following
year.[214] Giorgio di Gio. Simone was one of his pupils, and Giovanni
Battista di Girolamo Sozzini (of whom presently) was another.
[Illustration:
LOMBARDI PHOTO.] [DESIGNED BY DOMENICO BECCAFUMI
XXV. THE STORY OF MOSES AND THE TABLES OF THE LAW (No. 52)]
39. 1518. _Bernardino di Jacomo._
Of this sculptor nothing much is known. In company with a painter
named Francesco di Bartolommeo, in 1555, he valued a picture painted
by Lorenzo di Cristofano (_il Rustico_) and his pupils, for the
Confraternità di S. Michele; and he was in 1559–60, commissioned to
make three coats of arms in tufa, to decorate the façade of the Palazzo
Pubblico.
40. 1518. _Giovannantonio Marinelli, called il Mugnaino._
Of this sculptor we find no trace; but we read of another workman
in the same craft, by name Anton Maria, who was also nicknamed _il
Mugnaino_. This artist in 1583, with another sculptor, Domenico Capo,
was employed to make marble ornaments for an altar in the Duomo.[215]
41. 1518. _Giacomo di Pietro Gallo._
42. 1518. _Bartolommeo di Pietro Gallo._
Of these two brother masons nothing is known. They may have been
related to the cannon-founder, Mosè Gallo, whom we find referred to in
1502, as making guns for the Commune of Siena;[216] or they may have
been related to the family from which came Sodoma’s wife, Beatrice,
daughter of Luca di Gallo.
43. 1518. _Niccolo Filippi._
44. 1518. _Cristofano di Carbone._
45. 1544. _Pellegrino di Pietro._
The only information to be found, concerning this sculptor, is that he
was employed to make a tomb for the Marsili family, which was valued by
Francesco Tolomei and Domenico Beccafumi.[217]
46. 1562. _Giovanni Battista di Girolamo Sozzini._
This painter and sculptor was born in Siena in 1525, and studied the
arts of drawing and painting under Bartolommeo Neroni (_Il Riccio_).
He was also a pupil of Beccafumi’s, and in addition learned to make
portrait-effigies in stucco and wax under Pastorino Pastorini, in which
art he excelled.[218] He was brother to the celebrated Alessandro
Sozzini, Diarist of the last Siege of Siena, and died in 1582. His
work, as we have said above, was much admired in its day.
47. 1562. _Niccolo di Girolamo Gori_,
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