Stoldo Di Gino Lorenzi

Mjesto: Settignano

Rođen: 1534

Smrt: 1583

Biografija:

Stoldo Lorenzi (Stoldo di Gino Lorenzi; 1534 – after 1583) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor active in Florence and Pisa. He was born in Settignano, Tuscany, close to Florence, the son of Gino Lorenzi, of a family of renowned stone-carvers (scalpellini). He had a brother Antonia, at least 10 years his senior. Lorenzi studied drawing under Michele Tosini in Florence, intending eventually to become a painter, but later apprenticed to become a sculptor under Niccolò Tribolo. He was influenced by artists such as Giambologna and Tribolo. Lorenzi mostly executed bronze sculptures. Among his best known works are the Annunciation in Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa (1561), the Fountain of Neptune (1565–1568) placed in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, and the bronze angel holding a candelabra which he executed for the Duomo di Pisa. He was also part of a team of artists providing sculpture for the Studiolo of Francesco I at the Piazza Vecchio, and for this he made a bronze Galatea (1573) and the statuette of Amphitrite holding a nautilus and a coral branch. He is counted among artists responsible for the diffusion of mannerist style by subsequently doing work in Milan. In Milan, he provided some sculptures for the façade of Santa Maria presso San Celso (1573–1582). Lorenzi died in Pisa in 1583.