Bartolomeo Bellano
Illustration — Bartolomeo Bellano • Illustration — David with the head of Goliath, 1470-1480 ca, Metropolitan Museum Bartolomeo Bellano, also known as Bartolomeo Vellano, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect who was born in Padua in 1437 or 1438. He was the son of a goldsmith and became a student of the sculptor Donatello, with whom he worked on many projects, including in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. Bartolomeo Bellano’s earliest documented works are four terracotta relief sculptures of boys, which were commissioned about 1460.
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Bartolomeo Bellano
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- Lamentation over the dead Christ
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Illustration — Bartolomeo Bellano • Illustration — David with the head of Goliath, 1470-1480 ca, Metropolitan Museum Bartolomeo Bellano, also known as Bartolomeo Vellano, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect who was born in Padua in 1437 or 1438. He was the son of a goldsmith and became a student of the sculptor Donatello, with whom he worked on many projects, including in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. Bartolomeo Bellano’s earliest documented works are four terracotta relief sculptures of boys, which were commissioned about 1460.
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One of which is held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. He created a statue of Pope Paul II in Perugia in 1467. Among his students was the sculptor and architect Andrea Riccio. Riccio imitated Bellano's Europa and the Bull sculpture. Bartolomeo died in Padua in either 1496 or 1497.
Bartolomeo Bellano is recorded as sculptor and architect. Bellano, Bartolomeo, Oxford Art Online, 2010.
Ritratto di Bartolomeo Bellano nell’edizione del 1769/75 delle Serie degli uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura.
Giovanni Battista Cecchi · Vol 2: Serie degli uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura: con i loro elogi, e ritratti incisi in rame cominciando dalla sua prima restaurazione fino ai tempi presenti.. by Pac
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1437
Bartolomeo Bellano born at Padua.
1496
Bartolomeo Bellano died at Padua.
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- 1.Sturgis, Russell. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I. Macmillan. 281–282. 1901.
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- Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, Rome, Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, 1960.
- Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, editors, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Reprint of 1907 edition, Leipzig, Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980-1986.
- Vasari, Giorgio, Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, many editions and translations.
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