Simone Mosca (1492–1554) was an Italian sculptor who was born in

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(part of

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). His sons were sculptors Francesco Mosca, called ''Il Moschino'' (ca. 1531-1578) and Simone Simoncelli, also known as ''Simone Moschino'' (1533-1610). During the late 1520s and early 1530s Simone worked with

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on the

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in Florence. A ''Venus'' by Francesco Moschino was described in 1782 in the Royal Palace of Turin. Starting circa 1535, Mosca worked on sculptures for the Duomo of Orvieto, working alongside

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. In 1542, he began to work on commissions by

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, soon to cardinal, in the city of Perugia and in

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. In 1546, he was named the maestro or director of construction for the Cathedral of Orvieto, replacing

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. Orvieto: note storiche di topografia; note storiche d'arte, dalle origini al 1800
by Pericle Perali (1919); pages 180-182. Simone Mosca died in Orvieto, Italy in 1554.

References

* Metropolitan Museum of Art, ''Outstanding Recent Accessions'', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Oct. - Nov., 1971), 94-96. * Vasari, Giorgio, ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'', many editions and translations. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mosca, Simone 1492 births 1554 deaths Sculptors from Florence 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors