BACCIO (BACCIO SINIBALDI) DA MONTELUPO. — Sculptor and architect, born in Montelupo in 1469, died in Lucca in 1535. Among his works are four terracotta statues for a *Pietà* in S. Domenico in Bologna (1495), inspired by a sensitive pictorial approach descending from Verrocchio and Leonardo; the lightness of the drapery, the soft inflection of gesture, and the subtle transition of planes through which the pictorial intent is expressed are balanced in the measured interplay of light and shadow.
He executed many crucifixes (Florence, S. Marco; Arezzo, SS. Flora e Lucilla, etc.), but among them that in S. Lorenzo in Florence is particularly notable for the softness of its modeling. More solid is the thoughtful bronze *St. John the Evangelist* of 1515 (Florence, Orsanmichele), where the chiaroscural balance and the poise of the figure are more carefully studied. In the late period of his activity, which unfolded in Lucca, the Madonna in the church of S. Martino (remnant of the Gigli monument), shows in the enlargement of forms and the continuous breaking of drapery a shattering of the initial equilibrium, whereby the work is drained of its lyrical content.
Toward the end of his life he devoted himself to architecture, and his most important work is the church of S. Paolino in Lucca, with a disharmonious façade in three orders, excessively developed in height, and an interior with a single nave and transept, in which the architectural order is topped by an attic that lends the whole a disproportionate verticality. — See Pl. XL.
Baccio d’Agnolo — Bell tower of the church of S. Spirito, Florence.
BACCIO d’AGNOLO — Bell tower of the church of S. Spirito, Florence.