BRAMBILLA, FRANCESCO il GIOVANE. — Sculptor, active in the second half of the sixteenth century, died in Milan in 1599.
He worked for the construction of the Duomo, providing, among other things, as documented, the models for the carvings of the choir designed by Pellegrini, for the symbols of the Evangelists in the pulpit on the left, and for the Doctors of the Church in that on the right. Together with Pellegrini, he represents, in the history of the Milanese cathedral, that artistic renewal which began after the accession of Cardinal Borromeo. Milanesi, in his commentary on Vasari’s Vite, VI (Florence 1878, p. 517), confuses him with B. VECCHIAIA (v.) and attributes to him the latter’s works, including the corbel of Pius IV.
BIBL.: F. Malaguzzi-Valeri, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, IV, p. 522, with bibliography. Amalia Mezzetti