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See also:ANTONIO (1429—1498)
distinguished himself as a sculptor, jeweller, painter and engraver, and did valuable service in perfecting the See also:art of enamelling
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His See also:painting exhibits an excess
x Iof brutality, of which the characteristics can be studied in the " See also:Saint See also:Sebastian," painted in 1475, and now in the See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London
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A " St See also:Christopher and the See also:Infant See also:Christ " is in the See also:Metropolitan Museum, New See also:York
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But it was as a sculptor and See also:metal-worker that he achieved his greatest successes
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The exact ascription of his See also:works is doubtful, as his See also:brother See also:Piero did much in collaboration with him
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The museum of See also:Florence contains the See also:bronze See also:group " See also:Hercules strangling Cacus " and the terra-See also:cotta bust " The See also:Young See also:Warrior "; and in the See also:South See also:Kensington Museum, London, is a bas-See also:relief representing a contest. between naked men
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In 1489 See also:Antonio took up his See also:residence in See also:Rome, where he executed the See also:tomb of See also:Sixtus IV
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(1493), a See also:composition in which he again manifested the quality of exaggeration in the anatomical features of the figures
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In 1496 he went to Florence in See also:order to put the See also:finishing touches to the See also:work already begun in the See also:sacristy of Santo Spirito
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He died in 1498, having just finished his See also:mausoleum of See also:Innocent VIII., and was buried in the See also: |
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