Le Jugement de Salomon - Giovanni Maria Mosca

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Giovanni Maria Mosca or Giovanni Padovano (1495/99 – after 1573) was an

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and medallist, active between 1515 and 1573, initially in the

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and after 1529 in Poland, where his first name was rendered Jan.

Life

Born in

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(which now has a street named after him), the first surviving mention of Mosca dates to 1507, when he began six years as apprentice to the Paduan sculptor Giovanni Minello and then to the goldsmith Bartolomeo Mantello. His first surviving work, ''The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (1516; Padua Cathedral), dates to this period. His artistic training continued in the studio of Tullio Lombardo and

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, both sons of the equally famous architect and sculptor

Pietro Lombardo Monument of the Doge Pietro Mocenigo 1481 :''Pietro Lombardo is also the Italian version of the name of the theologian Peter Lombard.'' Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino), he ...

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/ref> He was active in Veneto, where he produced important works in both Padua and

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and collaborated with Guido Lizzaro, Bartolomeo di Francesco Bergamasco and Pietro Paolo Stella. He arrived in

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around 1529 after being summoned to Sigismund I's court. He had probably attracted by the commission for the royal tomb but probably arriving too late to contribute to that work, which was instead produced by the Florentine Bartolomeo Berrecci. His first commission in Poland was four medals showing the royal family. He gathered around himself the most important sculptural workshop in Poland, mainly specialising in tomb monuments.

Works

* ''The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist'' - 1516 - sacrestia dei Prebendati, Padua Cathedral * ''Saint John the Baptist'' - sacristy, Santo Stefano, Venice * ''Saint Roch'', ''Saint John the Baptist'', ''Saint Francis'' - 1520-22 - high altar,

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* ''Miracle of the Glass'' - 1520-29 - cappella del Santo, basilica di Sant'Antonio, Padua * ''The Virgin of Charity'' - 1522 -

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* ''Judgement of Solomon'' -

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, Paris * ''Altarpiece of the Sacrament'' - Santa Maria Mater Domini, Venice * ''Cenotaph of Alvise Pasqualigo ''- 1523-29 -

basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of Venice, Italy. The largest church in the city, it has the status of a minor basil ...

, Venice * ''Ecce Homo Altarpiece'' - 1524-25 - Casa Cardinal Piazza, Venice * ''Gateway'' - Sant'Agnese, Padua * ''Porcia'' - 1523-29 - Galleria Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice * ''Philoctetes'' - 1520-29 - Palazzo Ducale,

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* ''Eurydice'' - 1520-29 -

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, New York * ''Eurydice'' - 1520-29 -

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* ''Cleopatra'' - Musée des beaux-arts, Rennes * ''Cleopatra'' - Museum Kunstpalast,

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* ''Mucius Scaevola'' - 1520-29 - Skulpturensammlung,

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* ''Mucius Scaevola'' - 1520-29 -

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* ''Mucius Scaevola'' - 1520-29 - Museo del Bargello,

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* ''Mars/Achilles'' - 1520-29 -

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* ''Tomb of Archbishop Piotr Gamrat'' - 1545-47 -

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, Kraków * Ciborium, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków * Arcade attic, Cloth Hall, KrakówCloth Hall - Magiczny Kraków
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References

Bibliography

* Matteo Ceriana (ed.), ''I bassorilievi mitologi e sacri, in Il camerino di alabastro. Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all'antica, catalogo della mostra tenuta a Ferrara'', Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2004, pp. 250–289, ISBN 8882157202. * Beatrice Cirulli
MOSCA, Giammaria, detto il Padovano
in ''Dizionario biografico degli italiani'', vol. 77, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2012. URL consultato il 12 ottobre 2018.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mosca, Giovanni Maria 1490s births 16th-century deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown People from Padua Italian Renaissance sculptors 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian medallists 16th-century medallists