BUONVICINO (BONVICINO), AMBROGIO. – Sculptor and stucco artist, born in Milan in 1552, died in Rome in 1622, where he had moved in 1581. Trained under Prospero Antichi (the Brescian), he attained a good command of the craft, but remained a weak and superficial composer. His principal works are in Rome: the statues of David and Ezechiel (1599) in S. Giovanni in Laterano; the bas-relief with Carlo VI and the fortifications of Ferrara (1612), and that with Clemente VIII (1613), both in the Pauline Chapel of S. Maria Maggiore; the statue of Urbano VIII in S. Maria sopra Minerva; and several accessory sculptures for S. Pietro, etc.
BIBL.: F. Noack, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, V, p. 235 (with bibliography); A. Riccoboni, Roma nell'arte. La scultura, Rome 1942, pp. 124–27 (with catalogue of the works). Elsa Gerlini