Cristoforo Solari
Cristoforo Solari (c. 1460 – 1527), also known as il Gobbo (the hunchbacked), was an Italian sculptor and architect. He was the brother of the painter Andrea Solari. • Illustration — Tomb lid of Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este, Pavia. • Illustration — Church of San Zaccaria Venice – bas-relief on the facade Among his works, one of the most famous is the cenotaph lid of the dukes Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este for the Certosa di Pavia, carved between 1497 and 1499.
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Cristoforo Solari
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- Born
- Cristoforo Solari was born, sources differ on the date (in 1468 and in 1460).
- Died
- sources differ (1524 and 1527).
- Nationality
- Duchy of Milan and Switzerland.
- Occupation
- sculptor and architect.
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Cristoforo Solari (c. 1460 – 1527), also known as il Gobbo (the hunchbacked), was an Italian sculptor and architect. He was the brother of the painter Andrea Solari. • Illustration — Tomb lid of Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este, Pavia. • Illustration — Church of San Zaccaria Venice – bas-relief on the facade Among his works, one of the most famous is the cenotaph lid of the dukes Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este for the Certosa di Pavia, carved between 1497 and 1499.
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For a while, people thought he had sculpted the Pietà, causing Michelangelo to break into the church and chisel his name on it. Some of Solari's work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Daniel Katz Gallery in London, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and multiple other locations across the world.
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Virtù sculpture by Cristoforo Solari in the Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice.
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1468
Cristoforo Solari was born in 1468.
1524
Cristoforo Solari died at Milan.
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Literature
Solari, Cristoforo, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Solari, Cristoforo, Oxford Art Online, 2003
Solari, Cristoforo da, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
The London "Woman in Anguish", Attributed to Cristoforo Solari: Erotic Pathos in a Renaissance Bust, Artibus et Historiae, 2003
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- 1.Saint Catherine of Alexandria. www.metmuseum.org.
- 2.Bust of Christ. collections.mfa.org.
- 3.Cristoforo Solari Hercules resting. www.katz.art.
- 4.Effigy of Beatrice d'Este Solari, Cristoforo V&A Search the Collections. V and A Collections. 2019-07-04.
- 5.Schofield, Cristoforo Solari, 1996.
- 6.Le corps et l'âme, De Donatello à Michel-Ange. 978-2-35031-697-0.
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