Andrea Riccio
Italian sculptor and occasional architect
1470 CE to 1532 CE
Andrea Riccio (c. 1470 – 1532) is an Italian sculptor and occasional architect, whose real name is Andrea Briosco, but is usually known by his sobriquet meaning "curly"; he is also known as Il Riccio and Andrea Crispus ("curly" in Latin).
He is mainly known for small bronzes, often practical objects such as inkwells, door knockers or fire-dogs, exquisitely sculpted and decorated in a classicizing Renaissance style.
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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.