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ANTONIO (1429—1498)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO (1429—1498)  distinguished himself as a sculptor, jeweller, painter and engraver, and did valuable service in perfecting the
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art of enamelling . His
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painting exhibits an excess x Iof brutality, of which the characteristics can be studied in the " Saint Sebastian," painted in 1475, and now in the
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National Gallery,
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London . A " St Christopher and the Infant Christ " is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York . But it was as a sculptor and metal-worker that he achieved his greatest successes . The exact ascription of his
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works is doubtful, as his
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brother Piero did much in collaboration with him . The museum of Florence contains the
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bronze
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group " Hercules strangling Cacus " and the terra-cotta bust " The Young
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Warrior "; and in the South
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Kensington Museum, London, is a bas-
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relief representing a contest. between naked men . In 1489 Antonio took up his residence in Rome, where he executed the tomb of
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Sixtus IV . (1493), a composition in which he again manifested the quality of exaggeration in the anatomical features of the figures . In 1496 he went to Florence in order to put the
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finishing touches to the
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work already begun in the sacristy of Santo Spirito . He died in 1498, having just finished his
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mausoleum of Innocent VIII., and was buried in the church of
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San Pietro in Vincula, where a monument was raised to him near that of his brother .

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