Andrea Sansovino

Andrea Sansovino, Andrea di Niccolò di actually Menco di Muccio, (* 1467 in Monte San Savino near Arezzo, † 1529 ) was an Italian sculptor.

According to Giorgio Vasari, he was taken as a farm boy in the herding of a noble Florentine, who recognized his talent, when he saw how he shaped animals from Earth., Usually just called Andrea Sansovino Sansovino, Antonio del Pollaiuolo was an apprentice to the next and formed by Leonardo da Vinci. Under these influences, the relief came with the crowning of Mary, the Annunciation and the Pietà in Santo Spirito in Florence.

To 1493 King John II of Portugal appointed him to Lisbon, where he spent nine years as an architect and sculptor. Returned in 1500 to Florence, he began here the marble group of the Baptism of Christ above the eastern portal of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, which stands alone in nobility of form and expression at that time, but was not completed by him, as he placed an order for the Cathedral of San Lorenzo from Genoa ( statues of the Madonna and the Baptist, 1503) received and was then appointed by Pope Julius II in 1505 to Rome to perform the tombs of the cardinals Girolamo Basso della Rovere and Sforza Ascagnio for the choir of Santa Maria del Popolo.

The same close in the arrangement of the taste of the 15th century, who found in them its highest artistic expression, but prepare by its picturesque individual shapes already on the mannerism of later time ago; it is the most glorious grave monuments, which owns Rome.

Sansovino in 1512 created the group of St. Anne in Sant ' Agostino in Rome.

From 1513 to 1522 he was commissioned by Leo X in 1523 and from Clement VII employed under the contract with the ornament of the Holy House at Loreto. The reliefs of the Annunciation and the Nativity and the statue of Jeremiah, he worked himself, the rest was carried out under his supervision by various artists.

At the age of 69 years Andrea Sansovino died in 1529 in his home town of Monte San Savino.

The beauty of Antique gathering with open mind, he associated it with a refined study of nature; his figures show deep feeling, but always within the bounds of moderation. He trained many students. One of these, Jacopo d' Antonio Tatti later took the last name of Sansovino.

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