Andrea Briosco (aka Riccio), born at Padua,…
1521 CE
Andrea Briosco (aka Riccio), born at Padua, had first trained as a goldsmith by his father, Ambrogio di Cristoforo Briosco, and later began to study bronze casting under Bartolomeo Bellano, a pupil of Donatello.
As an architect, he is known for the church of Santa Giustina in his native city.
His masterpieces are the bronze Paschal candelabrum in the choir in Basilica of Sant'Antonio at Padua (1515), and the two bronze reliefs (1507) of David dancing before the Ark and Judith and Holofernes in the same church.
His bronze and marble tombs of the physicians Marcantonio and Girolamo della Torre in the church of San Fermo at Verona is beautifully decorated with eight remarkably classical reliefs that depict the lives of the deceased in a frankly pagan spirit.
The reliefs will later taken away by the French and are now in the Louvre.
His smaller, easily transportable, works appeal to collectors across Europe.