BREGNO, ANTONIO

BREGNO, ANTONIO. – Known as A. da Como. Sculptor, born in Righeggia (Como), active in the 15th century in Venice with his brother Paolo, where their only certain work is preserved: the tomb of Doge Francesco Foscari (d. 1457), a sumptuous monument in which Gothic elements are combined with Renaissance motifs. Due to stylistic affinities with the Foscari monument, some statues in the Ducal Palace and those of Fortitude and Temperance on the Porta della Carta are attributed to A. B. It is also believed that A. B. can be identified with the “Antonio da Rigesio da Como” who, in 1425–26, worked with a “maestro Paolo” at the Ca’ d’Oro under the direction of Mattia Roversi. The erroneous identification of A. B. with Antonio Rizzo (A. Venturi, *Storia dell’Arte*, VI, Milan 1908, p. 1058) stems from F. Sansovino (*Venetia Città nobilissima*, Venice 1581, pp. 668; 119 b).