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Benedetto Grazzini, best known as Benedetto da Rovezzano (1474 – c. 1552) was an
Italian
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architect and sculptor who worked mainly in
Florence
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.
He was born in
Pistoia
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in 1474, and adopted the name Rovezzano from the quarter of Florence in which he lived.
His most important works include:
*Pandolfini Chapel and cloister of the
Badia Fiorentina
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.
*Remains of the monument of St. John Gualbert and a chimney, now in
Bargello
The Bargello, also known as the Palazzo del Bargello, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, or Palazzo del Popolo (Palace of the People), was a former barracks and prison, now an art museum, in Florence, Italy.
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Museum.
*Portal of the
Church of Santi Apostoli.
*Marble
cenotaph
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of
Pier Soderini
Piero di Tommaso Soderini (March 17, 1451 – June 13, 1522) also known as Pier Soderini, was an Italian statesman of the Republic of Florence.
Biography
Soderini was born in Florence to Tommaso di Lorenzo Soderini, a member of an old family w ...
, church of
the Carmine.
*Tabernacle of St. John the Evangelist,
Santa Maria del Fiore
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.
*Three bas-reliefs in the church of
San Salvi
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The church was built in the 11th century by the Vallombrosans as part of an abbey complex. During the 1529 Siege of Florence, the church was partially destroyed. ...
.
Pope Leo X
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Born into the prominent political an ...
sent twelve terra cotta medallions by Rovezzano to
Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey ( – 29 November 1530) was an English statesman and Catholic bishop. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figur ...
. The sculptor himself went to England in 1524. Wolsey commissioned a tomb for himself, but fell from royal favour before its completion, but King
Henry VIII of England
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ordered its completion. King
Charles I of England
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wished to be buried in it although it remained empty until
Nelson
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* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
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was buried in it.
Four bronze angels designed by Rovezzano for Wolsey's tomb have come to light and will be acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
V&A Museum has now required the 4 angels and are currently touring England. They are currently on display at Newark Museum in Leicester until October 2018.
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1474 births
1550s deaths
People from Pistoia
16th-century Italian architects
Architects from Tuscany
Italian Renaissance architects
15th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
16th-century Italian sculptors
Sculptors from Tuscany
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