Francesco da Sangallo (1494 – 1576) was an
ItalianItaly , 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. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
High
RenaissanceThe Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe...
sculptor, the son of the architect and sculptor
Giuliano da SangalloGiuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...
.
His father took him at the age of ten to
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where, in 1506, he was present at the identification of the
LaocoönThe statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group, is a monumental sculpture in marble now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. The statue is attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus...
group, an event he described in a letter written in 1567, towards the end of his life. Francesco da Sangallo was a pupil of
Andrea SansovinoAndrea dal Monte Sansovino or Andrea Contucci del Monte San Savino was an Italian sculptor active during the High Renaissance...
. The earliest dated sculpture attributed to him is the "
Virgin and Child with St. AnneThe Virgin and Child with St Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolising his Passion whilst the Virgin tries to restrain him...
" in
OrsanmicheleOrsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...
,
FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
.
Francesco da Sangallo (1494 – 1576) was an
ItalianItaly , 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. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
High
RenaissanceThe Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe...
sculptor, the son of the architect and sculptor
Giuliano da SangalloGiuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...
.
His father took him at the age of ten to
RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
where, in 1506, he was present at the identification of the
LaocoönThe statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group, is a monumental sculpture in marble now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. The statue is attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus...
group, an event he described in a letter written in 1567, towards the end of his life. Francesco da Sangallo was a pupil of
Andrea SansovinoAndrea dal Monte Sansovino or Andrea Contucci del Monte San Savino was an Italian sculptor active during the High Renaissance...
. The earliest dated sculpture attributed to him is the "
Virgin and Child with St. AnneThe Virgin and Child with St Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolising his Passion whilst the Virgin tries to restrain him...
" in
OrsanmicheleOrsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...
,
FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
. Sangallo was active in
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in Rome around 1542 and became
Capomaestro and architect of the
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in Florence the following year. Among works by him in the church of Santa Maria Pimerana in
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are a self-portrait in relief dated 1542 and his last work, a relief of Francesco del Fede. Other works include the effigy of Bishop Leonardo Bonafede, which lies on the pavement of the church of the Certosa near Florence, and the group of the Virgin and Child and St Anne, executed in 1526 for the altar of
OrsanmicheleOrsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...
. He was named a member (
Accademico) of the prestigious
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of Florence, founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563.