Pietro Torrigiano (1472-1528)
Artist associated with 6 portraits
Torrigiano was a Florentine sculptor and painter who became the first proponent of the Italian Renaissance style in England. He was a student, along with Michelangelo, of Bertoldo di Giovanni at the Academy of Lorenzo de' Medici. Torrigiano left Florence and worked in Rome, Bologna, Siena, and Antwerp before making his reputation in England. His best-known works, the tombs in Westminster Abbey for King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, are full-length reclining figures cast in gilt bronze.
by Elkington & Co, cast by Domenico Brucciani, after Pietro Torrigiano
electrotype, 1870 (circa 1512-1518)
NPG 291
by Elkington & Co, cast by Domenico Brucciani, after Pietro Torrigiano
electrotype, 1870 (circa 1512-1519)
On display on the Medieval Stairs at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 290
after Pietro Torrigiano
electrotype, (circa 1514)
NPG 356
after Pietro Torrigiano
plaster cast from head of monument, (circa 1516)
NPG 1585
by Pietro Torrigiano
plaster cast of bust, circa 1518
NPG 4823
after Pietro Torrigiano
plaster cast of relief, (circa 1518)
NPG 1565
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