# Baptismal font [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FERRUCCI, Andrea di Piero]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary The earliest of Ferrucci's documented works are a marble altarpiece with a ciborium for Fiesole Cathedral \(in situ\), commissioned from him in 1488 but not completed until 1492–93, and a marble baptismal font for Pistoia Cathedral \(in situ\), which he executed in 1497–99 with the assistance of Jacopo d'Andrea del Maza, possibly after designs by Benedetto da Maiano. Benedetto had originally been engaged to do the work but died \(1497\) before he could carry it through. The centrepiece, a life-size Baptism in high relief, owes nothing to Benedetto, however, and is one of Andrea's most important surviving sculptures. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Marsilio Ficino]() - [Crucifixion Altarpiece]() - [Julius Caesar]() - [St Andrew]() - [St Andrew]() - [St Catherine of Alexandria]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()