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BARTOLOMMEO BANDINELLI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANDINELLI  or See also:BACCIO (1493—1560), Florentine sculptor, was the son of an eminent See also:goldsmith, and from him See also:Bandinelli obtained the first elements of See also:drawing . Showing a strong inclination for the See also:fine arts, he was See also:early placed under Rustici, a sculptor, and a friend of Leonardo da See also:Vinci, with whom he made rapid progress . The ruling See also:motive in his See also:life seems to have been See also:jealousy both of Benvenuto See also:Cellini and of See also:Michelangelo, one of whose cartoons he is said to have torn up and destroyed . He is regarded by some as inferior in See also:sculpture only to Michelangelo, with whom a comparison unfavourable to Bandinelli is tempted in such See also:works as the See also:marble See also:colossal See also:group of See also:Hercules and Cacus in the Piazza del Gran Duco, and the group of See also:Adam and See also:Eve in the Bargello . Among his best works must be reckoned the See also:bassi-rilievi in the See also:choir of the See also:cathedral of See also:Florence; his copy of the See also:Laocoon; and the figures of See also:Christ and Nicodemus on his own See also:tomb .

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