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BERNARDO ROSSELLINO (1409-1464)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 746 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROSSELLINO (1409-1464)  , Florentine sculptor, was no less able than his younger See also:brother See also:Antonio . His finest piece of See also:sculpture is the See also:tomb, in the Florentine See also:Santa Croce, of Leonardo See also:Bruni of See also:Arezzo, the historian of See also:Florence, executed in 1443 some years after Bruni's See also:death; the recumbent effigy is of See also:great merit . The inner See also:cathedral See also:pulpit at See also:Prato, circular in See also:form on a tall slender See also:stem, was partly the See also:work of Mino da See also:Fiesole and partly by Bernardo See also:Rossellino . The latter executed the See also:minute reliefs of St See also:Stephen and the See also:Assumption of the Virgin . For his See also:part in the work he received sixty-six See also:gold florins . The See also:South See also:Kensington Museum possesses a See also:relief by Bernardo, signed and dated (1456) . It is a See also:fine portrait of the physician Giovanni da S . Miniato . Bernardo's See also:works as an architect were numerous and important, and he was also a skilful military engineer . He restored the See also:church of S . See also:Francis at See also:Assisi, and designed several fine buildings at Civita Vecchia, See also:Orvieto and elsewhere . He also built fortresses and See also:city walls at See also:Spoleto, Orvieto and Civita Castellana .

He was largely employed by See also:

Nicholas V. and See also:Pius II. for restorations in nearly all the great basilicas of See also:Rome, but little trace of his work remains, owing to the sweeping alterations made during the 17th and 18th centuries . Between the years 1461 and 1464 (when he died while engaged on the Lazzari See also:monument at See also:Pistoia) he occupied the important See also:post of See also:capo-See also:maestro to the Florentine duomo . A number of buildings at See also:Pienza, executed for Pius II., are attributed to him; the Vatican registers mention the architect of these as M° Bernardo di Fiorenza, but this indication is too slight to make it certain that the See also:elder Rossellino is referred to (see See also:Vasari, ed . See also:Milanesi, iii . 93 seq.) . See Wilhelm See also:Bode, See also:Die Italienische Plastik (See also:Berlin, 1902) .

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