Daniele da Volterra

Daniele Ricciarelli (born with Volterra in 1509 and died with Rome, the April 4th 1566), more known under the name of Daniele da Volterra , is a sculptor and a painter Italian mannerist.

He is known for his participation in the work of Michel-Angel. Several of important works of Volterra are based on drawings of Michel-Angel, and after the death of this one, it recovers the genitals of the characters of the final Jugement , which saves to him the nickname of It Braghettone .

Biography

Daniele Ricciarelli is born with Volterra, currently in the Latium. It early begins its artistic studies with the Siennois It Sodoma and Baldassare Peruzzi, but leaves them because it is in dissension with them. It is probable that it accompanies Peruzzi with Rome in 1535 and that he helps it to paint the Fresque S of the Palazzo Massimo ale Colonne. It becomes then raises of Perin del Vaga.

Of 1538 with 1541 it assists Perin with the frescos of the villa of the Trivulvives cardinal to Salonia, with the Massimi vault of the Trinity-of-Mounts and with the vault of the Crucifixion with San Marcello Al Corso. One orders to him other frescos in the large living room of Palazzo Massimo, according to the life of Quinto Fabio Máximo.

It starts to work with Michel-Angel, and becomes his friend, who use of his influence on the pope Paul III to obtain in Volterra loads and the station of superintendant works vaticanes, load which it preserves until the death of the pope.

Miguel Angel provides him outlines and drawings, from which Volterra creates some of its paintings, like its frescos with the Orsini vault with the Trinity of the Mounts, completed in 1541, and its table with double face David and Goliath. Near to Michel-Angel, it is destined for its bedside whereas it fails, and collects its last wills. Lastly, it is him which draws up the inventory of its goods.

It receives then the responsibility of complete the royal Salle for Paul III. With died of this one in 1549, it loses the load of superintendant, and the corresponding pension. He dies in Rome in 1566; according to its will, it was in possession of the marble knee of the missing leg of the Christ of Michel-Angel

Work

The most known work of Volterra is its Deposition , carried out according to outlines of Michel-Angel to the Trinity of the Mounts around 1545. She was very appreciated at her time, and was regarded as the equal one of Transfiguration of Raphaël and the Last Communion of saint Jerome of the Dominiquin. The table with face doubles David and Goliath (about 1555, with the Musée of Louvre) is him also based on an outline of Michel-Angel, and was allotted to the Master a long time besides.

Its other most notable works are the Massacres of the innocent , 1557, and a bust based on a moulding of face of the Master carried out after his death.

Among his the most known sculptures, one can quote his Cléopâtre with the museum of the Belvédère. It accepted also the ordering of an equestrian statue of Henri II of France, but it finished only the horse. This unfinished statue later was used for a statue of Louis XIII, placed on the Place of the Vosges, destroyed during the French revolution.

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