ARTWORK:
The Drawings and Studies of “Baccio” Bandinelli (1493-1560).
Bartolommeo “Baccio” Bandinelli (1493 – 1560), actually born Bartolommeo Brandini, was a Renaissance Florentine Mannerist sculptor, a reputed Italian draughtsman and painter. Bandinelli was trained as a goldsmith by his father, Michelangelo di Viviani de’ Bandini, who was patronized by the Medici family. Bandinelli, Michelangelo-influenced works, were also favored by the Medici particularly in the second quarter of the 16th century.
His talents marked a predilection for sculpture, and he worked under the sculptor Giovanni Francesco Rustici and became one of the principal artists at the court of the grand dukes of Tuscany. He founded an academy for artists in the Vatican (1531) and one in Florence (c.1550). Accounts of Bandinelli given in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives and in the Autobiography of the sculptor Benvenuto Cellini represent him as jealous, malignant, and untalented. He assumed the surname Bandinelli in 1530.
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