FUSINA, ANDREA. — Italian sculptor and architect, d. in Milan in 1526. He is the author in Milan of many funerary monuments, the first of which, dated 1495, is the sarcophagus of Archbishop Birago in S. Maria della Passione.
For the Duomo he executed the statue of Judas Maccabaeus and, perhaps, that of Mary Magdalene; the monument of Bishop Bagaroto, now at the Castello Sforzesco having come from S. Maria della Pace, is from 1517; that of Giovanni Tolentino at the Incoronata is from the same year. He also worked at the Certosa of Pavia, while other of his works are at Saronno, Monza and Lodi (in the Duomo, monument of Bassiano da Ponte, 1510). In 1527 he was named architect of the Milan Duomo. Predominantly devoted to decorative research, he derived his motifs, often of great refinement, from the Certosa of Pavia and from the Lombard tradition of the Antelami and his followers.