BAROCCI, AMBROGIO, known as AMBROGIO DA MILANO. - Sculptor, son of Antonio, trained in the workshop run in Ferrara by the Mantuan Albertino de' Rasconi. In 1472, at Urbino, he carved the friezes of the doors and windows of the Palazzo ducale, to a design by Laurana. In 1475, in collaboration with Rossellino, he worked, in S. Giorgio di Ferrara, on the tomb of Lorenzo Rovella (signed); in 1481-84 he was employed on the construction of the bell tower of S. Maria della Quercia near Viterbo; in 1491 he collaborated with Pippo da Firenze on the design of the portico of the cathedral of Spoleto; in 1516 he worked at Todi. He reworked Tuscan and Lombard elements, blending them with a predominantly decorative tendency.
BIBL.: Anon., s. V. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 392-93 (with bibliography); A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, VI, Milano 1908, pp. 620-21. For the works in S. Maria della Quercia di Viterbo see C. Pinzi, Memorie e documenti inediti sulla basilica di S. Maria della Quercia, in Archivio stor. dell'arte, 3 (1890), pp. 300-32.