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BERNARDO ROSSELLINO (1409-1464)

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ROSSELLINO (1409-1464) , Florentine sculptor, was no less able than his younger See also:brother See also:Antonio. His finest piece of See also:sculpture is the See also:tomb, in the Florentine See also:Santa Croce, of Leonardo See also:Bruni of See also:Arezzo, the historian of See also:Florence, executed in 1443 some years after Bruni's See also:death; the recumbent effigy is of See also:great merit. The inner See also:cathedral See also:pulpit at See also:Prato, circular in See also:form on a tall slender See also:stem, was partly the See also:work of Mino da See also:Fiesole and partly by Bernardo Rossellino. The latter executed the See also:minute reliefs of St See also:Stephen and the See also:Assumption of the Virgin. For his See also:part in the work he received sixty-six See also:gold florins. The See also:South See also:Kensington Museum possesses a See also:relief by Bernardo, signed and dated (1456). It is a See also:fine portrait of the physician Giovanni da S. Miniato. Bernardo's See also:works as an architect were numerous and important, and he was also a skilful military engineer. He restored the See also:church of S. See also:Francis at See also:Assisi, and designed several fine buildings at Civita Vecchia, See also:Orvieto and elsewhere. He also built fortresses and See also:city walls at See also:Spoleto, Orvieto and Civita Castellana.

He was largely employed by See also:

Nicholas V. and See also:Pius II. for restorations in nearly all the great basilicas of See also:Rome, but little trace of his work remains, owing to the sweeping alterations made during the 17th and 18th centuries. Between the years 1461 and 1464 (when he died while engaged on the Lazzari See also:monument at See also:Pistoia) he occupied the important See also:post of See also:capo-See also:maestro to the Florentine duomo. A number of buildings at See also:Pienza, executed for Pius II., are attributed to him; the Vatican registers mention the architect of these as M° Bernardo di Fiorenza, but this indication is too slight to make it certain that the See also:elder Rossellino is referred to (see See also:Vasari, ed. See also:Milanesi, iii. 93 seq.). See Wilhelm See also:Bode, See also:Die Italienische Plastik (See also:Berlin, 1902).

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