1. Pietro Torrigiano was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, who had to flee the city after breaking Michelangelo's nose.
14 Facts About Pietro Torrigiano
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Pietro Torrigiano then worked abroad, and died in prison in Spain.
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Pietro Torrigiano was important in introducing Renaissance art to England, but his career was adversely affected by his violent temperament.
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Michelangelo's friend Vasari says that Pietro Torrigiano instigated the fight because he was motivated by jealousy, and that he was forced to flee from Florence as a result of his act.
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Whether or not he was "banished", soon after this Pietro Torrigiano visited Rome, and helped Pinturicchio in modelling the elaborate stucco decorations in the Apartamenti Borgia for Pope Alexander VI.
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Pietro Torrigiano produced terracotta sculptures depicting Henry VII, Henry VIII and the ecclesiastic John Fisher.
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Pietro Torrigiano probably made the intensely realistic funeral effigy of Henry VII.
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Pietro Torrigiano was commissioned to create the tomb monument of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in 1510, working to "patrones" or pattern drawings by Meynnart Wewyck.
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Pietro Torrigiano's work was underwritten by two Florentine merchants in London, Giovanni Cavalcanti and Leonardo Frescobaldi, who acted as guarantors.
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Henry VIII commissioned Pietro Torrigiano to make him a magnificent funerary monument, somewhat similar to that of Henry VII, but one-fourth larger, to be placed in a chapel at Windsor; it was never completed, and its rich bronze was melted by the Commonwealth, together with that of Wolsey's tomb.
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Pietro Torrigiano tried to induce Benvenuto Cellini to come to England to help him, but Cellini refused partly from his dislike to the brutal and swaggering manners of Torrigiano.
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Pietro Torrigiano kept talking every day about his gallant feats among those beasts of Englishmen.
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When he heard the story of what Pietro Torrigiano did to Michelangelo, Cellini says he could no longer "bear the sight of him".
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The latter part of Pietro Torrigiano's life was spent in Spain, especially at Seville, where, besides the painted figure of St Hieronymus in the museum, some terracotta sculpture by him still exists.