ALESSANDRO LEOPARDO (d. c. 1512)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 458
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ALESSANDRO See also:LEOPARDO (d. c. 1512)
, See also:Italian sculptor, was See also:born and died at See also:Venice
.
His first known See also:work is the imposing See also:mausoleum of the See also:doge See also:Andrea Vendramini, now in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:San Giovanni e See also:Paolo; in this he had the co-operation of Tullio See also:Lombardo, but the finest parts are See also:Leopardo's
.
Some of the figures have been taken away, and two in the See also:Berlin museum are considered to be certainly his work
.
He was exiled on a See also:charge of See also:fraud in 1487, and recalled in 1490 by the See also:senate to finish Verrocchio's See also:colossal statue of Bartolommeo See also:Colleoni
.
He worked between 1503 and 1505 on the See also:tomb of See also:Cardinal See also:Zeno at St See also:Mark's, which was finished in 1515 by Pietro Lombardo; and in 1505 he designed and See also:cast the See also:bronze sockets for the three flagstaffs in the square of St Mark's, the See also:antique See also:character of the decorations suggesting some See also:Greek See also:model
.
End of Article: ALESSANDRO LEOPARDO (d. c. 1512)
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