Antonio Rossellino

Antonio Gamberelli (Settignano, 1427 - Florence, 1479), called Antonio Rossellino , because of the color of its hair, is a sculptor Florentin. His/her big brother, from whom it receives his artistic education, is the painter Bernardo Rossellino.

Antonio is the junior by five brothers, all stone sculptors or masons.

Biography

Beyond of a style more refined than that of his Bernardo brother, it is influenced by Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Michelozzo and Luca della Robbia, and by its exchanges with its contemporary Desiderio da Settignano.

Its most important works are the arch of the Beato Marcolino for the church of the Ordre of the Preachers to Forlì (1458) and, to Florence, the monument of the Cardinal Jacopo of the Portugal, in the basilica San Miniato Al Assembles (1461-1467), fall it from Neri Capponi to the church Santo Spirito.

Meanwhile, in 1464, with died of his brother, it took again the family workshop.

In 1473, it is in Prato, for the pulpit of Duomo. With Ferrare, it carries out the Monumento Roverella with the church San Giorgio.

Between 1475 and 1490, it realizes with Naples, the Tomba di Maria d' Aragona and the Natività , both in the Piccolomini vault with Sant' Anna dei Lombardi .

He is noticed for his two-tone ceramics in low-relief, forms and blue, inspired of the style of Della Robbia.

Works

Bust of Francesco Sassetti
Bust of Giovanni Chellini, to the Victoria and Albert Museum of London (1456)
Bust of Matteo Palmieri, to the museum of the Bargello (1468)
Furnace bridge San Sebastiano with collegial of Empoli
Monument in Marie d' Aragon, duchess of Amalfi, to the church Assembles Oliveto of Naples

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