Tommaso Malvito (died 1508) was an Italian sculptor, known particularly for his work on funerary monuments in

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at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was born in

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) in the late 15th century, and was a pupil of the Milanese Pietro di Martino. From 1476 to 1483 he was in

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, where he worked under

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. Malvito is mentioned for the first time as an autonomous artist in 1484, in his

workshop which he held until in 1508, together with his son Giovanni Tommaso Malvito. He worked with painter Francesco da Milano on the tomb of the prioress of the local convent of S. Sebastiano. In the 1490s he worked on the

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crypt (''Succorpo'', commissioned by Cardinal

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, though the statue there is generally attributed to Giovanni Tommaso), and the marble portal of Santissima Annunziata Maggiore.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Malvito, Tommaso 15th-century births 1508 deaths Artists from Como 15th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 16th-century Italian sculptors