Lorenzo Rustici

Lorenzo Rustici ( also mentioned as Lorenzo Brazzi, called Il Rustico, * 1521 in Siena, † 1572 ibid ) was an Italian painter and plasterer, who was active mainly in Siena.

Life

His father was Cristoforo di Lorenzo Brazzi († November 16, 1545 in Siena); he moved as an architect from Piacenza to Siena. Lorenzo Rustici was the father of Cristoforo Rustici, Vincenzo Rustici, and father of Alessandro Casolani, who married his daughter Aurelia Rustici. From this marriage produced his nephew Cristoforo Casolani and Ilario Casolani. He received his education at Giovanni Antonio Bazzi likely ( called Sodoma ). His first trip to Rome is documented in 1558, he remained there from 1560 to 1562 to work in the Accademia di San Luca.

On October 10, 1570, he was mentioned as a colleague of Bartolomeo Neroni ( Il Riccio ) in a document. He died at the June 10, 1572 in Siena and was buried in the Basilica di San Domenico under the altar of San Pietro Martire.

Works (selection)

• Pienza, Museo diocesano: San Giovanni Battista, Cristo in pieta and Battesimo del Cristo ( coffin heads, created in 1570, located in hall 7, attributed to work )
• Madonna col Bambino ( comes from Chiesa di Sant'Ansano a Dofàna in Castelnuovo Berardenga)

• Cristo in Pietà e due Angeli ( Fresco, Salone della Rocca, 310 x 284 cm, Inv. 381682 )
• Ecce Homo ( comes from the Collezione Chigi Serafini, Inv. 273)

Swell

• Lorenzo Rustici. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 29, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1935, pp. 234 f.
• Saur: artists of the world, Volume 14, page 38, KG Saur Verlag, Munich and Leipzig, 2003, ISBN 3- 598-22754 -X
• Biografico Dizionario degli Italiani: Entry to the Brazzi / Rustici
• Torriti, Piero: Tutta Siena. Contrada by Contrada, Bonechi Edizioni, Florence, 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1