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Mino da Fiesole (c.1429—1484) was a Florentine sculptor. He is noted for his portrait busts. His work was influenced by his master Desiderio da Settignano and by Antonio Rossellino, and is characterized by its sharp, angular treatment of drapery. Unlike most Florentine sculptors of his generation, Mino passed two lengthy sojourns in Rome, from about 1459 to 1464 and again from about 1473/1474 until 1480. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Mino di Giovanni (1431-1484), called da Fiesole, was an Italian sculptor. ... Events January 10 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, founds the European Order of the Golden Fleece February 12 - Battle of Rouvray (or of the Herrings). English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the Earl of Suffolks army at Orleans from attack by... Events January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and... Country Italy Region Tuscany Province Florence (FI) Mayor Leonardo Domenici Elevation 50 m Area 102 km² Population  - Total (as of 2006-06-02) 366,488  - Density 3,593/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Fiorentini Dialing code 055 Postal code 50100 Frazioni Galluzzo, Settignano Patron St. ... Desiderio da Settignano (c. ... Antonio Gamberelli (c. ...

His most arduous and complicated commissions, which define his intellectual and artistic nature, are the monumental wall monuments for the church of the Benedictine monastery in Florence known as the Badia. (The monuments have been reinstalled in the rebuilt church.) The first, completed about 1468, was essentially a private commission for the Florentine jurist Bernardo Giugni. The second, directly commissioned by the monks and finished in 1481, honored the memory of their founder, the tenth century Ugo, count of Tuscany. The wall monuments exercised Mino's skills: portraits and bas-reliefs are worked into complex tectonic aedicular structures with elaborate highly individualistic decorative moldings. Art historians have revelled in the extraordinary diversity of contemporary and ancient sources that Mino marshaled in these tombs, which distinguish him from other sculptors active in mid quattrocento Florence (Zuraw 1998). ... The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church of the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. ... Hugh the Great (Hugo or Ugo) (c. ... Bas relief is a method of sculpting which entails carving or etching away the surface of a flat piece of stone or metal. ...

His other works include:

Piero de Medici

• a portrait bust of Piero de Medici (1453)
• a portrait bust of Niccolò Strozzi (1454)
• a bust of Astorgio Manfredi (1455)
• the ciborium over the high altar of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome
• a bust of Dietisalvi Neroni, adviser to Piero de Medici (1464)
• companion pieces of Charity and Faith, most probably designed for a wall tomb (1475/1480)

Giorgio Vasari's vita of Mino da Fiesole in his Lives of the Artists dismisses him as a mere follower of Desiderio da Settignano, his master. Image File history File links Fiesole-Piero-the-Gouty. ... Image File history File links Fiesole-Piero-the-Gouty. ... Piero de Medici (the Gouty), Italian Piero il Gottoso (1416 – December 2, 1469), was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance. ... Coat of arms of the Strozzi family. ... A Ciborium is a container, used in Roman Catholic, Anglican, and related Churches rituals to store Holy Communion. ... Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... Vita or VITA can refer to any of a number of things: Vita (Latin for life) can also refer to a brief biography, often that of a saint (i. ... Desiderio da Settignano (c. ...

External link

• E. Shelley Zuraw, 1998. "The public commemorative monument: Mino da Fiesole's Tombs in the Florentine Badia" from The Art Bulletin (September 1998)