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Bertoldo di Giovanni (circa 1435/40 – 28 December 1491) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 sculptor and medallist.

Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he was a pupil of Donatello
Donatello

Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
 and for a long time worked in his master's workshop, carrying out his unfinished works after his death in 1466, for example the bronze pulpit reliefs from the life of Christ in the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze
Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze

The Basilica di San Lorenzo is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city?s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III....
 in Florence. He later became head and teacher of the school for painters and in particular for sculptors, which Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italy statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets....
 had founded in his garden.






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Bertoldo di Giovanni (circa 1435/40 – 28 December 1491) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 sculptor and medallist.

Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he was a pupil of Donatello
Donatello

Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
 and for a long time worked in his master's workshop, carrying out his unfinished works after his death in 1466, for example the bronze pulpit reliefs from the life of Christ in the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze
Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze

The Basilica di San Lorenzo is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city?s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III....
 in Florence. He later became head and teacher of the school for painters and in particular for sculptors, which Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italy statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets....
 had founded in his garden. At the same time, Bertoldo was the custodian of the antiques there. Some of the most significant sculptors of their time attended this school, such as Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
, Baccio da Montelupo
Baccio da Montelupo

Baccio da Montelupo , born Bartolomeo di Giovanni d'Astore dei Sinibaldi, was a sculptor of the Italian Renaissance. He is the father of another Italian sculptor, Raffaello da Montelupo....
, Giovanni Francesco Rustici
Giovanni Francesco Rustici

Giovanni Francesco Rustici was an Italy Italian Renaissance and sculptor.He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income....
, Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo Sansovino

Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino , was an Italy sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity....
.

He died at Poggio a Caiano
Poggio a Caiano

Poggio a Caiano is a town and commune in the Province of Prato, Tuscany region Italy. The town lies 9 km south of the provincial capital of Prato....
.