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ANTONIO ROSSELLINO (1427-c. 1479)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 746 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO See also:ROSSELLINO (1427-c. 1479)  , Florentine sculptor, was the son of Matteo di Domenico Gamberelli, and had four See also:brothers, who all practised some See also:branch of the See also:fine arts . Almost nothing is known about the See also:life of See also:Antonio, but many of his See also:works exist, and are full of religious sentiment, and executed with the utmost delicacy of See also:touch and technical skill . The See also:style of Antonio and his See also:brother Bernardo is a development of that of See also:Donatello and See also:Ghiberti; it possesses all the refinement and sweetness of the earlier masters, but is not equal to them in vigour or originality . Antonio's See also:chief See also:work, still in perfect preservation, is the lovely See also:tomb of a See also:young See also:cardinal See also:prince of See also:Portugal, who died in 1459 . It occupies one See also:side of a small See also:chapel, also built by See also:Rossellino, on the See also:north of the See also:nave of See also:San Miniato al See also:Monte.' The recumbent effigy of the cardinal rests on a handsome See also:sarcophagus, and over it, under the See also:arch which frames the whole, is a beautiful See also:relief of the Madonna between two flying angels . The tomb was begun in 1461 and finished in 1466; Antonio received four See also:hundred and twenty-five See also:gold florins for it . A See also:reproduction of this tomb with slight See also:Marble Relief by Antonio Rossellino . alterations, and of course a different effigy, was made by Antonio for the wife of Antonio See also:Piccolomini, See also:duke of See also:Amalfi, in the ' Illustrated by Gonnelli, Mon . Sepol. della Tosca•,aa (See also:Florence, 1819), pl. See also:xxiii.See also:church of S . Maria del Monte at See also:Naples, where it still exists . For the same church he also executed some delicate reliefs, which perhaps err in being too pictorial in style, especially in the treatment of the backgrounds . A fine medallion relief by him in marble, originally modelled in terra-See also:cotta, is preserved in the Bargello at Florence (see fig.) .

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