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Danese Cattaneo (c1512? - 1572) was an Italian sculptor and medallist, active mainly in the Veneto Region. Danese was Tuscan in origin, born in either Massa di Carrara or

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. He produced primarily sculptures of religious and historical subjects and portrait busts. From an early age he was a pupil of

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance archi ...

in Rome, and left the city, as Sansovino and many other artists did, after the

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. In Sansovino's circle at Venice, he made a reputation in 1530 with his ''St Jerome'' at the base of the organ in

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. He was invited to Padua in 1533 to take part in the stucco decorations for the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. He also sculpted the sepulchre there of Alessandro Contarini, a Venetian general. Once again in Venice, he was part of the collaborative team providing architectural enrichments for Sansovino's great projects. In Venice he sculpted the statue of Apollo over the well in the centre of the court of the Zecca. According to Giorgio Vasari, Danese composed the rich iconographic program himself:Adrienne DeAngelis, 2005. "The Apollo Wellhead of Danese Cattaneo: a source for Ammannati's "Juno" Fountain in Florence" ''Artibus et Historiae'' 26(51) pp. 151-157. Apollo is a young man, sitting on a globe, his head radiant; in the right hand are metal rods, and in the left a sceptre, at the top of which is an eye. A serpent, with his tail in his mouth ( ouroboros), encircles the globe. In the church of

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of Verona, he sculpted a memorial to Giano Fregoso. He also participated in four statues for Doge Leonardo Loredan's monument in the

church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo The Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a church in the Castello ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. One of the largest churches in the city, it has the status of a minor basilica. After the 15th century the fu ...

. Giorgio Vasari owed to conversations with Danese many details of Venetian artists in his ''Vite''. He died in Padua in 1572.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cattaneo, Danese 1509 births 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 1572 deaths