200px, Arca of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Cremona Cathedral. Benedetto Briosco (c.1460–c.1517) was an Italian

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sculptor and architect, active in Lombardy. Briosco was born in

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, and is thought to have apprenticed in Milan. His ''sepulchre monument of Ambrogio Grifi'' (1489) in the church of San Pietro in Gessate in

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is his first documented work. The statue is characterized by a crude realism. Also from his early years in Milan, in which he collaborated with Francesco Cazzaniga, are the ''Brivio Monument'' in the

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(1489) and the ''Della Torre Monument'' in Santa Maria delle Grazie (1483–1484). From around 1492 he was involved in the sculptural program of the

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. He collaborated on the decoration of the façade with

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, and after the death of Amadeo he took over as sole director of the design and sculpting of the main portal (1501–1507). He also worked on the tomb of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (under Giovanni Cristoforo Romano). In 1508-13 he worked in the

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(sculpting the ''Urn of Saints Peter and Marcellinus''). Traveling from Lombardy to Piedmont, in the church of San Giovanni in

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he built the tomb of

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. He sculpted the noteworthy statue of "St. Anne" for the

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(1492), now in the cathedral's museum. From 1495 is the ''Longhignana monument'' once in the church of San Pietro in Gessate, and now in the Palazzo Borromeo on the Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore.

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