Pietro Torrigiano
Pietro Torrigiano (Florence, November 24th, 1472 - Spain, August 1522) is an Italian sculptor of the school florentine of the Italian Renaissance.
Biography
Exasperated by one of its remarks désobligeante in its connection, it would have struck Michel-Angel with the face when, young people, they copied the frescos of the church Santa Maria del Carmine. It would be the cause of this visible disfiguration in all the portraits of Michel-Angel.When he visits Rome, he helps Pinturicchio for modellings in stucco of the Borgia apartments of the pope Alexandre VI.
After having been soldier engaged in the service of various states, it is invited by the court of England to carry out a monument comprising the effigies of the king Henri VII of England and the queen, in the Lady Chapel (now Chapelle Henri VII) always visible with the Abbaye of Westminster; it is also active for a furnace bridge, a retable and a Baldaquin in the west of the preceding monument. … It finishes its life in Spain and dies in the prisons of the Inquisition.
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