Michelozzo biography wikipedia

Pagno di Lapo Portigiani — was an Italian Renaissance decorative sculptor , a minor follower of Donatello who worked on numerous occasions in projects designed and supervised by Michelozzo. Pagno di Lapo was born at Fiesole , near Florence. In Pagno di Lapo was working as a stone-cutter in the joint shop of Donatello and Michelozzo in Pisa , during the production of the Coscia and Brancacci tombs.

In he collaborated with two obscure stone-cutters on the decorative elements of the baptismal font in the Duomo of Siena , and as a garzone in Donatello's shop in connection with the resumed work on the pulpit for Prato, In Florence he was occupied between and with decorative carving executed concurrently for the Basilica of San Lorenzo and Palazzo Medici both projects under Michelozzo again.

Nevertheless, he is credited with designing Palazzo Isolani on Piazza Santo Stefano , which was built between Basing their attributions on Giorgio Vasari , a significant number of Early Renaissance sculptures have been associated with Pagno's name since the late nineteenth century, most notably the Madonna and Child at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.

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When Piero de' Medici planned to commission a marble tabernacle in the Gothic Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata , the church of the Servi di Maria, Florence, he consulted Michelozzo, who seems to have provided the design, but left the execution of its architectural enframement to Pagno di Lapo, whose inscription runs round the inside of the architrave.

Vasari, in noticing the inscription in time for his revision of Le Vite , revised his attribution of other sculptures at the Santissima Annunziata, attributing to Pagno metalwork that documents actually show to have been supplied by Maso di Bartolomeo, [ 4 ] doubtless under Michelozzo's supervision; Vasari added to his attributions the Madonna and Child relief illustrated above, which was already in the Opera del Duomo.

On this slender basis early twentieth-century scholars erected an increased oeuvre for Pagno di Lapo, until in H. Jansen related the relief to a group of reliefs of the Madonna and Child, recognized as by the youthful Agostino di Duccio , under the influence of Luca della Robbia. Contents move to sidebar hide.