Sansovino, Andrea (redirected from Andrea Contucci)

Sansovino, Andrea (ändrĕ`ä sänsōvē`nō), c.1460–1529, Florentine sculptor and architect of the High Renaissance, b. Monte Sansavino. His real name was Andrea Contucci. He trained under Antonio Pollaiuolo and worked in Florence, Rome, and Loreto. His tombs of Cardinals Sforza and Basso in Rome and his statues and reliefs for church decoration, such as the graceful Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1512) at San Agostino, were greatly admired.

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Sansovino, Andrea

 orig. Andrea Contucci

(born c. 1467, Monte San Savino, Republic of Florence—died 1529, Monte San Savino) Italian sculptor. The fine detail and high emotional pitch of his marble Altar of the Sacrament in Florence's Santo Spirito (1485–90) typify his early work; his marble Baptism of Christ (1502), above one of the Baptistery doors in Florence, marks a shift to High Renaissance style with its dignified poses and strong but controlled emotion. His tombs for two cardinals in Rome's Santa Maria del Popolo (completed 1509) were his most influential innovation, with their triumphal-arch form and the novel sleeping attitude of the deceased cardinals. His works display the transition from early to High Renaissance, and his graceful style acted as a counterbalance to Michelangelo's titanic, muscular sculpture throughout the 16th century.

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Sansovino, Andrea 

(real surname, Contucci). Born circa 1460 in Monte San Savino, Tuscany; died there in 1529. Italian sculptor and architect.

Sansovino worked in Portugal and in Florence, Rome, and Loreto. His most important architectural work dates to his years in Loreto (1513–27). Sansovino’s sculptures, for example, the marble tombs of A. Sforza and G. Basso in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome (1506–09), combined austerely simple plastic forms with various archaisms of the quattrocento.

REFERENCE

Huntley, G. H. Andrea Sansovino. Cambridge, Mass., 1935.