BELLANO, BARTOLOMEO. - Sculptor, b. in Padua ca. 1434, d. there between 1496 and 1497. It is believed that he collaborated on the two cantorias of San Lorenzo in Florence, thus coming into contact with the art of Donatello, whose stiacciato he applied himself to translating in the reliefs for the marble reliquary of the sacristy (1469) and in the bronze ones (1484-88) for the choir, in the church of the "Santo" in Padua: there he displays a hardness of line that excludes pictorial researches, and a narrative interest of northern taste. The qualities of incisive plasticism and expressive vigor of his sculpture are better demonstrated in the Roccabonella monuments (1491) in San Francesco in Padua (relief with the Madonna, the Child and saints). He worked on commission from Paul II in Rome and in Perugia.

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BIBL.: A. Moschetti, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, III, pp. 233-236; A. Scrinzi, B. B., in L'arte, 29 (1926), pp. 248-60; S. Bettini, B. B. ineptus artifex, in Rivista d'arte, 13 (1931), pp. 45-108.

Maria Vittoria Brugnoli

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Bellano, Bartolomeo

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