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PIETRO TORRIGIANO (1472-1522)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TORRIGIANO (1472-1522)  , Florentine sculptor, was, according to See also:Vasari, one of the See also:group of talented youths who studied See also:art under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent in See also:Florence . Benvenuto See also:Cellini, See also:reporting a conversation with See also:Torrigiano, relates that he and See also:Michelangelo, while both See also:young, were copying the frescoes in the See also:Carmine See also:chapel, when some slighting remark made by Michelangelo so enraged Torrigiano that he struck him on the See also:nose, and thus caused that disfigurement which is so conspicuous in all the portraits of Michelangelo . Soon after this Torrigiano visited See also:Rome, and helped See also:Pinturicchio in modelling the elaborate See also:stucco decorations in the Apartamenti See also:Borgia for See also:Alexander VI . After some See also:time spent as a hired soldier in the service of different states, Torrigiano was invited to See also:England to execute the magnificent See also:tomb for See also:Henry VII. and his See also:queen, which still exists in the See also:lady chapel of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey . This appears to have been begun before the See also:death of Henry VII. in 1509, but was not finished till 1517 . The two See also:effigies are well modelled, and have lifelike but not too realistic portraits . After this Torrigiano received the See also:commission for the See also:altar, See also:retable and baldacchino which stood at the See also:west, outside the See also:screen of Henry VII.'s tomb . The altar had See also:marble pilasters at the angles, two of which still exist, and below the See also:mensa was a See also:life-sized figure of the dead See also:Christ in painted terra-See also:cotta . The retable consisted of a large See also:relief of the Resurrection . The baldacchino was of marble, with enrichments of gilt See also:bronze; See also:part of its See also:frieze still exists, as do also a large number of fragments of the terra-cotta angels which surmounted the baldacchino and parts of the large figure of Christ . The whole of this See also:work was destroyed by the Puritans in the 17th See also:century.' Henry VIII. also commissioned Torrigiano to make him a magnificent tomb, somewhat similar to that of Henry VII., but one-See also:fourth larger, to be placed in a chapel at See also:Windsor; it was, however, never completed, and its See also:rich bronze was melted by the See also:Commonwealth, together with that of See also:Wolsey's tomb . The indentures for these various See also:works still exist, and are printed by See also:Neale, Westminster Abbey, i .

54-59 (See also:

London, 1818) . These interesting documents are written in See also:English, and in them the Florentine is called " See also:Peter Torrysany." For Henry VII.'s tomb he contracted to receive £1500, for the altar and its fittings £See also:i000, and £2000 for Henry VIII.'s tomb . Other works attributed from See also:internal See also:evidence to Torrigiano are the tomb of See also:Margaret of See also:Richmond, See also:mother of Henry VII., in the See also:south See also:aisle of his chapel, and a terra-cotta effigy in the chapel of the Rolls . While these royal works were going on Torrigiano visited Florence in See also:order to get skilled assistants . He tried to induce Benvenuto Cellini to come to England to help him, but Cellini refused partly from his dislike to the brutal and swaggering See also:manners of Torrigiano, and also because he did not wish to live among " such beasts as the English." The latter part of Torrigiano's life was spent in See also:Spain, especially at See also:Seville, where, besides the painted figure of St Hieronymus in the museum, some terra-cotta See also:sculpture by him still exists . His violent See also:temper got him into difficulties with the authorities, and he ended his life in 1522 in the prisons of the See also:Inquisition . See Wilhelm See also:Bode, See also:Die italienische Plastik (See also:Berlin, 1902) . See also:TORRINGTON, See also:ARTHUR See also:HERBERT, See also:EARL of (1647-1716), See also:British See also:admiral, was the son of a See also:judge, See also:Sir See also:Edward Herbert (c . 1591-1657) . He entered the See also:navy in 1663, and served in the Dutch See also:wars of the reign of See also:Charles II., as well as against the See also:Barbary pirates . From i68o to 1683 he commanded in the Mediterranean . His career had been See also:honourable, and he had been wounded in See also:action .

The known Royalist sentiments of his See also:

family combined with his reputation as a See also:naval officer to point him out to the favour of the See also:king, and See also:James II. appointed him See also:rear-admiral of England and See also:master of the See also:robes . The king no doubt counted on his support of the See also:repeal of the Test Acts, as the admiral was member for See also:Dover . Herbert refused, and was dismissed from his places . He now entered into communication with the agents of the See also:prince of See also:Orange, and promised to use his See also:influence with the See also:fleet to forward a revolution . After the acquittal of the seven bishops in 1688 he carried the invitation to See also:William of Orange . The Revolution brought him ample amends for his losses . He was named first See also:lord, and took the command of the fleet at See also:home . In 1689 he was at See also:sea attempting to prevent the See also:French admiral See also:Chateau-Renault (q.v.) from landing the troops sent by the king of See also:France to the aid of King James in See also:Ireland . Though he fought an action with ' An old See also:drawing still exists showing this elaborate work; it is engraved in the Hierurgia anglicana, p . 267 (London, 1848) . Many hundreds of fragments of this terra-cotta sculpture were found a few years ago hidden under the See also:floor of the See also:triforium in the 'abbey; they are .infortunately too much broken and imperfect to be fitted together .. the French in See also:Bantry See also:Bay on the loth of May he failed to baffle panions of the See also:Bath upon the revival of that order in 1725 .

In 1727 See also:

George II. on his See also:accession made him first lord of the See also:admiralty, and his See also:administration was distinguished by the See also:establishment of the Royal Naval See also:College at See also:Portsmouth . He died on the 17th of See also:January 1733, and was buried at Southill, in See also:Bedfordshire . Two of his eleven sons, Pattee (1699–1747) and George (1701-1750), became respectively the 2nd and 3rd viscounts . The See also:title is still held by the descendants of See also:Vie latter . See See also:Memoirs See also:relating to Lord Torrington, See also:Camden See also:Soc., new See also:series 46, and A True See also:Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to See also:Sicily 1718-1720, published anonymously, but known to be by See also:Thomas Corbett of the admiralty in 1739 . See also:Forbin's Memoirs contain the French See also:side of the expedition to See also:Scotland in 1708 .

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