Giovanni di Balduccio

Giovanni di Balduccio was an Italian sculptor, who worked in the first half of the 14th century in Lombardy and Tuscany.

1317 he is first detected, as a pupil of Andrea Pisano, he worked at the cathedral in Pisa. His first signed work is the pulpit of S. Casciano in Florence. Here are several tombs in Florence and Sarzana. 1335 he is called by Azzo Visconti to Milan and cause that the Arca di S. Pietro Martire in St. Eustorgio from. Around this time he also founded a school to its students Bonino da Campione counts. After Visconti's death Balduccio is entrusted with the erection of a monument for him, that's still to be seen in part in the gallery of the Marquise Trivulzi in Milan. In 1349 he received a call to Pisa than Capo Maestro, which he does not follow. Then lose track of him.