Chiarissimo d'Antonio Fancelli (died 1632) was an Italian sculptor and architect of the late-

Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ita ...

and Baroque periods, mainly active in

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. Domenico Pieratti and Giovanni Battista Pieratti were his pupils. It is unclear how he fits into the large pedigree of Tuscan sculptors including Cosimo and

Luca Fancelli Luca Fancelli (c. 1430 – c. 1502) was an Italian architect and sculptor. Biography Fancelli was born in Settignano, a fraction of Florence. Much of his life and work is an enigma; what is known for sure is that he trained as a stonecutte ...

. When

Cosimo II de' Medici Cosimo II de' Medici (12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until his death. He was the elder son of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Christina of Lorraine. For the majority of his twelve-ye ...

built the Loggia del Grano in

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, Chiarissimo Fancelli provided a bust of Cosimo, and a fountain on the corner of the building, the ''Fontana del Mascherone''.

References

ULAN record.
* Baldinucci, Filippo (1728). ''Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali''. Stamperia S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franch
(Googlebooks entry)
p. 136. 1632 deaths 17th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Italian Baroque sculptors Year of birth unknown {{Italy-sculptor-stub