Pierino da Vinci (; –1553/54), born Pier Francesco di Bartolomeo di Ser Piero da Vinci, was an Italian sculptor, born in the small town of
Vinci in Tuscany; he was the nephew of
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...
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The son of Bartolomeo da Vinci, Leonardo’s younger half-brother, Pierino demonstrated artistic ability at an early age; and was seen by his family as the heir to his uncle's talent. He studied under both
Baccio Bandinelli (1488–1560) and
Niccolò Tribolo
Niccolò di Raffaello di Niccolò dei Pericoli, called "Il Tribolo" (1500 – 7 September 1550) was an Italian Mannerist artist in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici in his natal city of Florence.
Life
Niccolò di Raffaello began as an apprent ...
(1500–1550).
Pierino died from
malarial fever at the age of 23, in
Pisa, in 1553-4.
The biographical information about this artist comes almost exclusively from ''
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'' by
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...
; this history of art and artists reports a mixture of fact and legend, making it difficult to establish reliable historical information about the subject, in the absence of other sources. A relief that was admired by Vasari and was long thought to be by
Michelangelo was recently the subject of an unsuccessful effort to keep it in the United Kingdom when it came up for auction. According to Vasari the relief was made by Pierino in 1549 for
Luca Martini dell’Ala (1507–1561), who was then in Pisa in the service of
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It depicts
Ugolino and his sons. The work is now in the collection of the
Liechtenstein Museum
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Several sculptures, now believed to be by Pierino da Vinci, were at one time attributed to Michelangelo.
His ''
Samson
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Slaying a
Philistine'' (1551/52) is displayed at the
Palazzo Vecchio in
Florence
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''Portrait of a Young Man'' (ca. 1550) by
Bronzino is thought to be of him.
[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/822056 ]
References
Bibliography
* Britta Kusch-Arnhold, ''Pierino da Vinci'', Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, vol. 14, Münster, Rhema-Verlag, 2008 ().
* Cianchi, Marco, ''Pierino da Vinci: atti della giornata di studio, Vinci, Biblioteca leonardiana'', Firenze, Becocci, 1995.
* Goguel, Catherine Monbeigl, ''Maestri toscani del Cinquecento: Michelangelo, Sansovino, Bandinelli, Jacone, Montorsoli, Salviati, Vasari, Dosio, Pierino da Vinci, Giambologna, etc.'', Firenze, Istituto Alinari, 1979.
* Middeldorf, Ulrich, ''Additions to the Work of Pierino da Vinci'', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 53, No. 309 (Dec., 1928), 298-306.
* Rosi, Mino, ''Pierino da Vinci, Profilo Interpretativo'', Pisa, ETS, 2000.
* Vasari, Giorgio, ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'', many editions and translations.
External links
Pierino da Vinci in ArtCyclopediaPierino da Vinci's "The Death of Count Ugolino Della Gherardesca and His Sons" at the Lichtenstein museum in Vienna, Austria
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16th-century Italian sculptors
People from Vinci, Tuscany
Italian male sculptors
1520s births
1550s deaths