02 — ARTIST
RIZZO, Antonio
b. 1430 Verona · d. 1499
BIOGRAPHY
Italian sculptor who made the earliest Venetian Renaissance free-standing tomb, of Orsato Giustiniani (d.1464), dismembered but known from a drawing of the whole, and fragments in New York (Metropolitan Museum), El Paso, Texas and Pavia (Cassa di Risparmio). He may have worked with Antonio Bregno on the Arco Foscari. Rizzo also made tombs for Doge Tron (S.M. dei Frari, 1476-82) and Giovanni Emo (Servi, after 1483, now also dismembered but known from a drawing). He became architect to the Doge's Palace in 1483 and at about the same time made the Adam and Eve now in the Palace. He fled Venice in 1498 after being accused of peculation, and died in Foligno.
WORKS IN ARCHIVE
12 OF 22 RECORDS
- Adam 1485
- Adam 1485
- Adam 1485
- Adam (detail) 1485
- Adam and Eve 1485
- Adam and Eve 1485
- Altar of St James 1469
- Courtyard 1485
- Eve 1485
- Eve 1485
- Eve 1485
- Eve (side view) 1485
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