Stoldo Lorenzi

Stoldo Lorenzi (Stoldo di Gino Lorenzi 1534 - after 1583) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor active in Florence and Pisa.

Fountain of Neptune in the Boboli Gardens

Born 1534 in Settignano, Tuscany, close to Florence.[1] He was born the son of Gino Lorenzi, of a family of renowned stone-carvers (scalpellini), and had a brother Antonia, at least 10 years his senior.[2][3]

He studied drawing under Michele Tosini in Florence, where Girolamo Macchietti was a fellow student, intending eventually to become a painter, [2][4] He would later apprentice to become a sculptor under Niccolò Tribolo.[2][3]

He was influenced by artists such as Giambologna and Tribolo. Lorenzi mostly executed bronze sculptures. Among his best known works are the Annunciation in Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa (1561), the Fountain of Neptune 1565–1568) placed in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, and the bronze angel holding a candelabra which he executed for the Duomo di Pisa.[1]

He was also part of a team of artists providing sculpture for the Studiolo of Francesco I at the Piazza Vecchio, and for this he made a bronze Galatea (1573) and the statuette of Amphitrite holding a nautilus and a coral branch.[1][5]

He is counted among artists responsible for the diffusion of mannerist style by subsequently doing work in Milan.[6] In Milan, he provided some sculptures for the façade of Santa Maria presso San Celso (1573–1582).

He died in Pisa in 1583.[1]

References

Citations

Pope-Hennessy, John (1970). "Stoldo Lorenzi 1534-1583". The Frick Collection: an illustrated catalogue. 3. Distributed by Princeton University Press. p. 208.
Taglialagamba (2009), p. 283.
Pilliod, Elizabeth (2001). Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori: A Genealogy of Florentine Art. 3. Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-300-08543-3.
Borghini, Raffaello (2008). "Stoldo Lorenzi". Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo. 3. Translated by Lloyd H. Ellis Jr. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-442-69229-9.; Borghini (1730) Il Riposo, pp. 497–498.
Mette, Hanns-Ulrich (1995). Der Nautiluspokal: wie Kunst und Natur miteinander spielen (in German). Klinkhardt & Biermann. p. 63.
Myers, Bernard Samuel (1959). "mannerism". Stoldo Lorenzi e la derivazione leonardesca per un favoloso dio irato. Encyclopedia of World Art. 8. McGraw-Hill. p. ccxlvii. ISBN 9780070194663.

Bibliography

Taglialagamba, Sara (2009). "Stoldo Lorenzi 1534-1583". Stoldo Lorenzi e la derivazione leonardesca per un favoloso dio irato. Raccolta Vinciana (in Italian). 33. pp. 267–.

External links

Emil Krén; Daniel Marx. "LORENZI, Stoldo di Gino". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 2019-09-18.

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[frick-1] Pope-Hennessy, John (1970). "Stoldo Lorenzi 1534-1583". The Frick Collection: an illustrated catalogue. 3. Distributed by Princeton University Press. p. 208.

[FOOTNOTETaglialagamba2009283-2] Taglialagamba (2009), p. 283.

[pilliod-3] Pilliod, Elizabeth (2001). Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori: A Genealogy of Florentine Art. 3. Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-300-08543-3.

[borghini-4] Borghini, Raffaello (2008). "Stoldo Lorenzi". Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo. 3. Translated by Lloyd H. Ellis Jr. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-442-69229-9.; Borghini (1730) Il Riposo, pp. 497–498.

[mette-5] Mette, Hanns-Ulrich (1995). Der Nautiluspokal: wie Kunst und Natur miteinander spielen (in German). Klinkhardt & Biermann. p. 63.

[ency-world-art-6] Myers, Bernard Samuel (1959). "mannerism". Stoldo Lorenzi e la derivazione leonardesca per un favoloso dio irato. Encyclopedia of World Art. 8. McGraw-Hill. p. ccxlvii. ISBN 9780070194663.