BANDINI, GIOVANNI. - Sculptor, b. at Castello (Florence) perhaps in 1540, d. at Florence on 16 April 1599, called Giovanni dell'Opera for having worked in the Opera del Duomo of Florence. He was a pupil of Baccio Bandinelli, but was able to react against Michelangelesque imitation and the mannerism of his time; among his works his portraits are particularly praised. Of his sculptures on sacred subjects we may recall the statues of the apostles and the bas-reliefs in the choir of S. Maria del Fiore; the Presentation of Mary and the Marriage of the Virgin in S. Maria Novella. He sculpted the statue of Ferdinand I in the monument at Livorno and that of Architecture in Michelangelo's tomb in S. Croce.

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BIBL.: Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, II, p. 442; U. Middelford, Drawing by Giovanni dell'Opera, in The Art Quarterly, 2 (1939), pp. 386-93; P. Rotondi, Contributi all'attività urbana di G. B. detto dell'Opera, Urbino s. d.: Géza de Francovich, s. v. in Enc. Ital., XVII, p. 250.

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Bandini, Giovanni

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