Pierino da Vinci

Pierino da Vinci ( * ca 1529; † January 1553 in Pisa ) was an Italian sculptor of the Cinquecento.

Until 1546/47 Pierino da Vinci learned, nephew of the painter and polymath Leonardo da Vinci, the sculptor Niccolò Tribolo and was then brought by Luca Martini, a scholar and a member of the Florentine Academy, to Pisa. There he spent the rest of his short life, and despite his young age has created some outstanding work in marble, such as a young river god or a group with Samson and a Philistine. He also created under the patronage of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici, the allegorical figure of " Dovizia " ( abundance ) on a column in the marketplace of Pisa. In 1553 he died of malaria.