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MINO DI GIOVANNI (1431-1484)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MINO DI GIOVANNI (1431-1484)  , called DA See also:

FIEsoLE, See also:Italian sculptor, was See also:born at Poppi in the Casentino . He had See also:property at Fiesole . See also:Vasari's See also:account of him is very inaccurate . Mino was a friend and See also:fellow-worker with Desiderio da Settignano and Matteo Civitale, all three being about the same See also:age . Mino's See also:sculpture is remarkable for its finish and delicacy of details, as well as for its spirituality and strong devotional feeling . Of Mino's earlier See also:works, the finest are in the duomo of Fiesole, the altarpiece and See also:tomb of See also:Bishop Salutati, executed before 1466 . In the Badia of See also:Florence are an altarpiece and the tombs of Bernardo Giugni (1466) and the See also:Margrave See also:Hugo (1481), all sculptured in See also:white See also:marble, with See also:life-sized recumbent See also:effigies and attendant angels . The See also:pulpit in See also:Prato See also:Cathedral, in which he collaborated with See also:Antonio See also:Rossellino, finished in 1473, is very delicately sculptured with bas-reliefs of See also:great minuteness, but somewhat weakly designed . Soon after the completion of this See also:work Mino went to See also:Rome, where he executed the tomb of See also:Pope See also:Paul II . (now in the See also:crypt of St See also:Peter's), the tomb of See also:Francesco Tornabuoni in S . Maria sopra See also:Minerva, and a beautiful little marble See also:tabernacle for the See also:holy See also:oils in S . Maria in Trastevere .

There can be little doubt that he was also the sculptor of several monuments in S . Maria del Popolo, especially those of Bishop Gomiel and See also:

Archbishop Rocca (1482), and the marble See also:reredos given by Pope See also:Alexander VI . Some of Mino's portrait busts and See also:profile bas-reliefs are preserved in the Bargello at Florence; they are full of life and expression, though without the extreme See also:realism of Verrocchio and other sculptors of his See also:time . See Vasari, See also:Milanesi's ed . (1878-1882); See also:Perkins's Italian Sculptors, See also:Winckelmann and D'See also:Agincourt, Storia della scultura (1813) ; Hans See also:Semper, Architekien der See also:Renaissance (See also:Dresden, 188o); Wilhelm See also:Bode, See also:Die italienische Plastik (See also:Berlin, 1893) .

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