# Pedestal

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/pedestal-r71467a2ac5ba1c>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [BENEDETTO DA ROVEZZANO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

Benedetto da Rovezzano executed the pedestal of the &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/b/bandinel/1/orpheus.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/b/bandinel/1/orpheus.html&#34;&gt;statue of Orpheus&lt;/a&gt; by Baccio Bandinelli in the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. He carved the shield with the Medici arms and the yoked-oxen device of Leo X.

## Related artworks

- [Candle-bearing Angel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/candle-bearing-angel-rd8cfad7ef68dcf>)
- [Candle-bearing Angel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/candle-bearing-angel-rf0444cbbea3138>)
- [Relief from an Altar or Tabernacle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/relief-from-an-altar-or-tabernacle-rcbf92839ea985a>)
- [St John the Evangelist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/st-john-the-evangelist-r9b13354bb778de>)
- [St John the Evangelist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/st-john-the-evangelist-rf6a0a2cf750ca7>)
- [Tomb of Oddo Altoviti](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/tomb-of-oddo-altoviti-r85bcc4bcccc4b6>)
- [Tomb of Piero Soderini](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/tomb-of-piero-soderini-r90cfd0448cb6eb>)
- [Tomb of St Giovanni Gualberto \(fragment\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/tomb-of-st-giovanni-gualberto-fragment-r9b6af2a8159ae1>)
- [Wall fountain](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/benedetto-da-rovezzano-r0aab4d465d7718/wall-fountain-rb7eabba53c2fc4>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)