Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century / A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction

by Estelle M. Hurll

IV. TABLE OF BIOGRAPHICAL DATA.

Jacopo di Pietro d'Angelo, of La Quercia Gossa, a castello once near Siena and since destroyed. Born 1371; died 1438. Variously stated to have been a scholar of Maestro Goro and of Luca di Giovanni. Milanese believes that these claims are groundless, and that Jacopo was a pupil of his own father, who was a goldsmith. Best known for his marble reliefs ornamenting the portal of S. Petronio, Bologna.

Nanni di Banco. Son of Antonio di Banco, who was at work in the Florence Cathedral in 1406. He is known to have been considerably older than Donatello, and Marcel Reymond suggests the date 1374 as the probable year of his birth. Died 1421.

Donatello. The familiar name applied to Donato di Niccolò di Betti Bardi. Born in Florence, 1386; died in Florence, 1466. His visit to Rome in company with Brunelleschi has been called the most important of the initial steps in the revival of antiquity in art. The friendship and patronage of Cosmo de' Medici brought the artist many commissions.

Luca di Simone di Marco della Robbia. Born in Florence, 1399 or 1400; died 1482.

Andrea della Robbia, nephew of Luca. Born 1435; died 1525.

Antonio Rossellino. One of the five sons of Matteo di Domenico Gambarelli, all being artists. Born in Settignano in 1427; died about 1499.

Mino di Giovanni di Mino, usually called Mino da Fiesole. Born in 1431 in Poppi, in the Casentino, a district between the sources of the Arno and Tiber, north of Arezzo. Died in 1484. He was a friend of Desiderio da Settignano, but probably not one of his pupils.