Jiron pietro torrigiano biography

&#;TORRIGIANO, PIETRO (–), sculptor and draughtsman, was born at Florence on 24 Nov. , and early devoted himself to the practice of art.

He was one of the band of young artists protected by Lorenzo de' Medici. The studies of these youths were carried on chiefly in the Brancacci Chapel, at the Carmine, where they copied Masaccio's famous frescoes, and in the Medici gardens at San Marco, where they drew from the antiques under the supervision of Donatello's disciple, the aged Bertoldo.

Jiron pietro torrigiano biography wikipedia

It was under these conditions that Torrigiano came in contact with Michelangelo, and that the famous quarrel took place in which Buonarroti was disfigured for life. Torrigiano's own account of the adventure is thus handed down to us by Benvenuto Cellini: ‘This Buonarroti and I used when we were boys to go into the church of the Carmine to learn drawing from the chapel of Masaccio.

It was Buonarotti's habit to banter (uccellare) all who were dr