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Baccio Bandinelli also called Bartolomeo Brandini ; 12 November — shortly before 7 February [ 1 ] , was an Italian Renaissance sculptor , draughtsman, and painter. Bandinelli was the son of a prominent Florentine goldsmith , [ 3 ] and first apprenticed in his shop. As a boy, he was apprenticed under Giovanni Francesco Rustici , a sculptor friend of Leonardo da Vinci.

Bartolommeo (or Baccio) Bandinelli, actually Bartolommeo Brandini (1 October – shortly before 7 February , was a Renaissance Italian sculptor, draughtsman and painter.

Giorgio Vasari , a former pupil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven by jealousy of Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo ; and recounts that:. When the cartoon of Michelangelo in the Council Hall "Battle of Cascina" at Palazzo Vecchio [ 4 ] was uncovered, and all the artists ran to copy it, and Baccio most frequently among them , Medici reinstated.

In the tumult, therefore, Baccio, being by himself, secretly cut the cartoon into several pieces. Some said he did it that he might have a piece of the cartoon always near him, and others that he wanted to prevent other youths from making use of it; others again say that he did it out of affection for Leonardo da Vinci, or from the hatred he bore to Michelangelo.

The loss anyhow to the city was no small one, and Baccio's fault very great.

Biography of High Renaissance and Mannerist Sculptor in Florence.

Bandinelli's lifelong obsession with Michelangelo is a recurring theme in assessments of his career. Bandinelli was a leader in the group of Florentine Mannerists who were inspired by the revived interest in Donatello attendant on the installation of Donatello's bas-relief panels for the pulpit in San Lorenzo , His sculptures have never inspired the admiration given those of Michelangelo, especially the colossal 5.

Vasari said of him "He did nothing but make bozzetti and finished little", and modern commentators have remarked on the vitality of Bandinelli's terracotta models contrasted with the finished marbles: "all the freshness of his first approach to a subject was lost in the laborious execution in marble A brilliant draughtsman and excellent small-scale sculptor, he had a morbid fascination for colossi which he was ill-equipped to execute.

His failure as a sculptor on a grand scale was accentuated by his desire to imitate Michelangelo. The supplied block of Carrara marble was not big enough to execute Bandinelli's original design.