Stoldo Lorenzi (''Stoldo di Gino Lorenzi''; 1534 – after 1583) was an

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sculptor active in Florence and Pisa. Born 1534 in

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, close to

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. He was born the son of Gino Lorenzi, of a family of renowned stone-carvers (''scalpellini''), and had a brother Antonia, at least 10 years his senior. He studied drawing under

Michele Tosini Michele Tosini, also called ''Michele di Ridolfo'', (1503–1577) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period, who worked in Florence. Biography He apprenticed initially with Lorenzo di Credi and Antonio del Ceraiolo, but then ...

in Florence, where Girolamo Macchietti was a fellow student, intending eventually to become a painter, He would later apprentice to become a sculptor under

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. He was influenced by artists such as

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and Tribolo. Lorenzi mostly executed bronze sculptures. Among his best known works are the Annunciation in

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(1561), the Fountain of Neptune 1565–1568) placed in the

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, Florence, and the bronze angel holding a

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which he executed for the

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. He was also part of a team of artists providing sculpture for the

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at the Piazza Vecchio, and for this he made a bronze Galatea (1573) and the statuette of

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holding a

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and a coral branch. He is counted among artists responsible for the diffusion of

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 Italy, ...

style by subsequently doing work in

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. In Milan, he provided some sculptures for the façade of

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(1573–1582). Lorenzi died in Pisa in 1583.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenzi, Stoldo 1534 births 1583 deaths Sculptors from Florence 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors