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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 Gallery, See also: London
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A " St Christopher and the Infant Christ " is in the 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 Florence contains the See also: bronze See also: group " Hercules strangling Cacus " and the terra-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 Antonio took up his residence in See also: Rome, where he executed the See also: tomb of See also: Sixtus IV
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(1493), a 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 sacristy of Santo Spirito
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He died in 1498, having just finished his See also: mausoleum of Innocent VIII., and was buried in the See also: church of
See also: San Pietro in Vincula, where a monument was raised to him near that of his brother
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