Nanni d'Antonio di Banco (c. 1384 – 1421) was a
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...
sculptor from
FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
.
He helped create the winning model for the
DuomoDuomo is a generic Italian term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral...
of the
Santa Maria del FioreThe Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...
Cathedral in Florence (1418), under the leadership of
Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy...
, alongside
DonatelloDonatello was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...
. His sculpture works for the church include the
Assumption of the Virgin, just over the Porta della Mandorla.
Nanni di Banco's most famous work is perhaps the
Quattro Santi Coronati (
Four Saints) group, depicting the
Four Crowned MartyrsThe designation Four Crowned Martyrs or Four Holy Crowned Ones actually refers to 9 separate martyrs, divided into two groups:...
, at
OrsanmicheleOrsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...
, completed about 1415 and strongly influenced by the classical tradition.
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Nanni d'Antonio di Banco (c. 1384 – 1421) was a
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...
sculptor from
FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
.
He helped create the winning model for the
DuomoDuomo is a generic Italian term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral...
of the
Santa Maria del FioreThe Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...
Cathedral in Florence (1418), under the leadership of
Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy...
, alongside
DonatelloDonatello was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...
. His sculpture works for the church include the
Assumption of the Virgin, just over the Porta della Mandorla.
Nanni di Banco's most famous work is perhaps the
Quattro Santi Coronati (
Four Saints) group, depicting the
Four Crowned MartyrsThe designation Four Crowned Martyrs or Four Holy Crowned Ones actually refers to 9 separate martyrs, divided into two groups:...
, at
OrsanmicheleOrsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...
, completed about 1415 and strongly influenced by the classical tradition. The Four Crowned Martyrs were patron saints of the stonemasons' guild.
Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari was an Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:Vasari was born in Arezzo, Tuscany...
includes a biography of Nanni di Banco in his
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and ArchitectsThe Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect...
.
Main works
- St. Luke (1408) - Santa Maria del Fiore
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...
, FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
- Quattro Santi Coronati (Four Saints) (1408-15) - Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele 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...
- Assumption of the Virgin (1414-21) - Santa Maria del Fiore
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...
, FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...