Madonna and Child, terracotta part gilded (Berlin).
Antonio Gamberelli (1427 – c. 1478/1481), nicknamed Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was an Italian sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the painter Bernardo Rossellino.
Born in Settignano, near Florence, he was the youngest
of five brothers, sculptors and stonecutters. He is said to have studied under Donatello and
is remarkable for the sharpness and fineness of his bas-relief. His most important works are
the funeral monument of Beato Marcolino (1458) for the Blackfriar Church (today a museum), Forlì, and the monument of
Cardinal Jacopo of Portugal in the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence
(1461–1467).
The portrait bust of Matteo Palmieri in the Bargello is signed and dated 1468. In 1470 he
made the monument for the Duchess of Amalfi, Mary of Aragon, in the Church of Monte Oliveto, Naples; the relief of the Nativity over the altar in the same place is
also probably his. A statue of John the Baptist as a boy is in the Bargello; also a
delicate relief of the Madonna and Child, an Ecce
Homo, and a bust of Francesco Sassetti. The so-called Madonna del
Latte on a pillar in the Church of Santa Croce is a memorial to
Francesco Neri, who fell by the stab intended for Lorenzo de' Medici. Other reliefs
of the Madonna and Child are in the Via della Spada, Florence, and in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London. In the latter place is the bust of Giovanni di San
Miniato, a doctor of arts and medicine, signed and dated 1456. Working in conjunction with Mino
da Fiesole, Rossellino executed the reliefs of the Assumption of Mary
and the Martyrdom of St. Stephen for the pulpit at Prato. A marble bust of the boy Baptist
in the Pinacoteca, Faenza, and a Christ Child in the Louvre are
attributed to Rossellino by some authorities.
Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Rossellino in his Lives.
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This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
article "Antonio di Matteo di
Domenico Rosselino" by M.L. Handley, a publication now in the public domain.
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