Vincenzo de' Rossi (b.

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, 1525. d.

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, 1587) was an Italian sculptor. Dying_Adonis_by_Vincenzo_de%27_Rossi-Bargello

Work

Rossi was mentored by

Baccio Bandinelli Baccio Bandinelli (also called Bartolomeo Brandini; 12 November 1493 – shortly before 7 February 1560), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter. Biography Bandinelli was the son of a prominent Florentine goldsmith, ...

. Many of Rossi's works historically were incorrectly attributed to

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspir ...

, such as ''Dying Adonis''. Some of his most famous works were his sculptures of the Twelve Labours of Hercules, of which he only completed seven. Six of these sculptures are located in at the

Palazzo Vecchio The ( "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy. It overlooks the , which holds a copy of Michelangelo's ''David'' statue, and the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi. Originally called the ''Palazzo della Signoria'', a ...

. The seventh labour, Hercules with Atlas, is located at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale. His statue "St. Joseph with Christ as a Child" resides in the Pantheon in Rome.https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:1860955

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16th-century Italian sculptors 1525 births 1587 deaths Sculptors from Florence {{Italy-sculptor-stub