Antonio Rizzo

(b Verona, before 1440; d 1499 or after). Italian sculptor, architect and engineer. He seems to have shown his skill as a sculptor in Verona by the 1460s, since the Protonotary Apostolic, Gregorio Correr (d 1464), praised him, together with Andrea Mantegna, in two epigrams and a poem. Also in the 1460s he probably visited Padua, where he could have studied Donatello's sculptures and Mantegna's frescoes in the Ovetari Chapel in the Eremitani. The Antonio Rizzo whom documents mention as being responsible for various works (1465-7) at the Certosa di Pavia was probably a different person. Markham Schulz's suggestion (1983), based on stylistic analysis, that Rizzo worked in Florence is controversial.

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