BAROCCI, Ambrogio, known as Ambrogio of Milan. - Sculptor, son of Antonio, who came out of the workshop kept in Ferrara by the Mantuan Albertino de' Rasconi. In 1472 in Urbino, he carved friezes for the doors and windows of the Ducal Palace, after a design by Laurana. In 1475, in collaboration with Rossellino, he worked, in S. Giorgio in Ferrara, on the tomb of Lorenzo Rovella (signed); in 1481-84 he was assigned to 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 in Todi. He reworked Tuscan and Lombard elements, fusing them with a predominantly decorative tendency.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 392-93 (with bibl.); A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, VI, Milan 1908, pp. 620-21. For the works in S. Maria della Quercia in Viterbo cf. C. Pinzi, Memorie e documenti inediti sulla basilica di S. Maria della Quercia, in Archivio stor. dell'arte, 3 (1890), pp. 300-32.

Elsa Gerlini

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