FUSINA, ANDREA. - Italian sculptor and architect, died in Milan in 1526. He was 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 Cathedral he executed the statue of Judas Maccabaeus and, perhaps, that of the Magdalene; dating from 1517 is the monument of Bishop Bagaroto, now in the Castello Sforzesco, transferred from S. Maria della Pace; from the same year is that of Giovanni Tolentino, at the Incoronata. He also worked at the Certosa of Pavia, while other works by him are at Saronno, Monza, and Lodi (in the Cathedral, the monument of Bassiano da Ponte, 1510). In 1527 he was appointed architect of Milan Cathedral. Primarily devoted to decorative exploration, he derived his motifs, often of great refinement, from the Certosa of Pavia and from the Lombard tradition of Amadico and his followers.