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70: 372: 162:(When) the cartoon of Michelangelo in the Council Hall ("Battle of Cascina" at Palazzo Vecchio) was uncovered, and all the artists ran to copy it, and Baccio (most frequently) among (them),... having counterfeited the key of the chamber. In... 1512, Piero Soderini was deposed and the... Medici reinstated. In the tumult, therefore, Baccio, being by himself, secretly cut the cartoon into several pieces. Some said he did it that he might have a piece of the cartoon always near him, and others that he wanted to prevent other youths from making use of it; others again say that he did it out of affection for Leonardo da Vinci, or from the hatred he bore to Michelangelo. The loss anyhow to the city was no small one, and Baccio's fault very great. 105: 40: 387: 93: 78: 488:. When Carrara was lost for a short while to the Genoese Republic, Bandinelli was commissioned to sculpt Andrea Doria. But after the city was retaken by the Florentine Republic, being such a symbol of Genoese dominion was impermissible, the statue was renamed Neptune, the Roman sea divinity, a rechristening suggested by the fountain sea creatures at the statue's base. 216:
and finished little", and modern commentators have remarked on the vitality of Bandinelli's terracotta models contrasted with the finished marbles: "all the freshness of his first approach to a subject was lost in the laborious execution in marble... A brilliant draughtsman and excellent small-scale
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marble was not big enough to execute Bandinelli's wax model. He had to make new wax models, one of which was chosen by the pope as the final draft. Bandinelli had already carved the sculpture as far as the abdomen of Hercules, when during the 1527
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Michelangelo de Viviano de Brandini of Gaiuole and his noble wife Catarina, a daughter of Taddeo Ugolino. Bandinelli produced a falsified genealogy connecting him with the noble Bandinelli of
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sculptor, he had a morbid fascination for colossi which he was ill-equipped to execute. His failure as a sculptor on a grand scale was accentuated by his desire to imitate Michelangelo."
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compared the ponderous group to 'a sack full of melons'. Afterwards, the Bandinelli tried to sabotage Cellini's career. The statue was restored between February and April 1994.
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now in the crypt of Santa Croce; much-praised bas-reliefs made for the enclosure of the choir, designed by the architect Giuliano di Baccio d'Angnolo (1555), now in the
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Bandinelli's drawings, which have in the past masqueraded as Michelangelos in connoisseurs' collections, have come into their own in the later twentieth century.
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as duke of Tuscany. Bandinelli then returned to Florence and continue work on the statue till completed in 1534, and transported from the
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His sculptures have never inspired the admiration given those of Michelangelo, especially the colossal (5.05 m) marble group of
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Bandinelli's penchant for self-portraits, both hidden and overt, is well documented. Bandinelli's terracotta
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could not bear to part with it, sent some antiquities to the King of France in its stead, and sent Baccio's
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Bandinelli was a leader in the group of Florentine Mannerists who were inspired by the revived interest in
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Christopher Fulton, "Present at the Inception: Donatello and the Origins of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism"
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Bandinelli's lifelong obsession with Michelangelo is a recurring theme in assessments of his career.
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retook Florence after a long siege. Pope Clement VII subsequently installed his illegitimate son
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Kathleen Weil-Garris, "Bandinelli and Michelangelo: A Problem of Artist's Identity", in
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to Charles V at Genoa in 1529; though the relief has been lost, a bronze from it by
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attendant on the installation of Donatello's bas-relief panels for the pulpit in
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Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources
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Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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Kurz, Otto (November 1944). "A Model for Bandinelli's Statue of Cosimo I".
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Baccio Bandinelli. The classic brief anecdotal account of Baccio's career.
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in preparation for his induction into the chivalric Order of St James by
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The paintings that may be attributed to Bandinelli are only a handful.
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Baccio Bandinelli – Drawing of monument for Pope Leo X and Clement VII
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Baccio Bandinelli, 1493-1560: Drawings from British Collections
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Art the Ape of Nature: Studies in Honor of H.W. Jansen
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ed. by M. Barasch and L.F. Sandler (New York) 1981.
491:In the Bargello are also a number of lesser works: 30:"Bandinelli" redirects here. For the surname, see 422:for Palazzo Vecchio, now in the courtyard of the 796: 538:by Botticelli (portrait of Baccio's grandmother) 536:Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli 460:, including, in the Audience Hall, a statue of 177:, 1515. The artist presented his relief of the 433:, Florence, including the high altar and its 647:. Vol. 85, no. 500. p. 280. 270:Among Bandinelli's pupils were Vasari and 624:.2 (1997, pp. 166–199) p. 174 and fig. 9. 645:The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 409:(1552–1556) for niches in the façade of 385: 370: 103: 91: 76: 68: 38: 426:. One of Bandinelli's few signed works. 46:of Bartolommeo Bandinelli, 16th century 14: 797: 514:and a portrait bust of an unknown man. 468:(finished after Bandinelli's death by 117:Bandinelli was the son of a prominent 780: 355:Monument to Giovanni delle Bande Nere 642: 395:Basilica della Santissima Annunziata 365:Basilica della Santissima Annunziata 666: 282:Baccio Bandinelli's works include: 24: 738: 25: 871: 667:Fox, Margalit (5 February 2009). 277: 272:Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) 132:. Among his earliest works was a 140:, identified as Bandinelli's by 679: 619:Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 314:to Florence. It remains at the 845:16th-century Italian sculptors 756:Scritti d'arte del Cinquecento 660: 636: 627: 611: 598: 584: 567: 558: 549: 478:(1549) in Santa Croce cloister 462:Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici 378:, now in the courtyard of the 13: 1: 840:Italian Renaissance sculptors 825:16th-century Italian painters 707: 521:c. 1517 is conserved at the 64: 61:, draughtsman, and painter. 59:Italian Renaissance sculptor 7: 835:Italian Mannerist sculptors 529: 341:Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici 206:in the Museo Nazionale del 198:(completed in 1534) in the 10: 876: 447:Museo dell'Opera del Duomo 345:Metropolitan Museum of Art 126:Giovanni Francesco Rustici 29: 27:Italian artist (1493–1560) 335:Santa Maria sopra Minerva 108:Bandinelli’s copy of the 542: 223:was commissioned by the 730:Touring Club Italiano, 695:The Burlington Magazine 633:Fulton 1997:178 note 15 555:The date of his burial. 517:A youthful portrait by 482:Andrea Doria as Neptune 424:Palazzo Medici-Riccardi 380:Palazzo Medici-Riccardi 128:, a sculptor friend of 850:Italian male sculptors 723:14 August 2014 at the 398: 393:by Baccio Bandinelli, 383: 256:to its present marble 164: 114: 101: 89: 74: 47: 830:Italian male painters 815:Artists from Florence 389: 374: 292:Cortile del Belvedere 290:, at the time in the 250:Alessandro de' Medici 200:Piazza della Signoria 160: 158:; and recounts that: 107: 95: 80: 72: 42: 32:Bandinelli (surname) 820:Italian draughtsmen 466:Pope Leo X blessing 437:(1551), now in the 351:to its rediscovery. 242:Ippolito de' Medici 138:Giuliano de' Medici 81:The cartoon of the 55:Bartolomeo Brandini 860:Catholic sculptors 781:Exhibition catalog 744:Louis A. 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Index

Bandinelli
Bandinelli (surname)

Italian Renaissance sculptor


Michelangelo

Hercules and Cacus

Laocoön Group
Florentine
goldsmith
Giovanni Francesco Rustici
Leonardo da Vinci
Giuliano de' Medici
John Pope-Hennessy
Giorgio Vasari
Benvenuto Cellini
Michelangelo
Donatello
San Lorenzo
Antonio Susini
Musée du Louvre
Hercules and Cacus
Piazza della Signoria
Bargello
bozzetti
Medici
Clement VII

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