Niccolò Tribolo

Niccolò di Raffaello di Niccolò Tribolo or Niccolò dei Pericoli, called Il Tribolo (* around 1500 in Florence, † September 7, 1550 ) was a Florentine sculptor, architect and garden designer.

Tribolo completed his apprenticeship with Andrea Sansovino. Giorgio Vasari cites many early works Tribolo ( statues, fountains, etc.), but are no longer found. With Benvenuto Cellini Tribolo traveled to Venice ( Cellini calls him in his autobiography Tribolino ), but returned in 1517 back to Florence.

There he designed, among other things, the 1534 festive decorations for the visit of Emperor Charles V, designed the grave chapel of Eleonora of Toledo and the reconstruction of the Villa Medici ( Poggio a Caiano ).

Largest reputation acquired Tribolo as a garden architect of numerous Medici villas such as the Villa Medici La Petraia or the Villa Medici of Castello, and their extraordinary Grotta degli Animali ( 1536) with sculptures by Giambologna. Tribolo gardens won by the hydraulic innovations by Piero da San Casciano in drama. When his masterpiece is considered the Boboli Gardens in Florence ( 1549-50 ).