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Sculptures by Domenico Poggini

THREE FLORENTINE ARTISTS-Bandinelli, Cellini, and Poggini-learned in their youth the goldsmith's and medalist's craft and later on became sculptors and created works that merit our consideration. Baccio Bandinelli (I488-I560) carved his first marble statue when he was less than thirty years old, the St. Peter for the cathedral of Florence ( 1515). Thereafter he made marble figures, reliefs, and bronzes, instead of jewelry. About 1530 he opened an "Academy" and began to teach the "art of drawing" in the evenings. Numerous pupils frequented his workshop and learned, as they learned drawing, to copy antique models and their master's style. Bandinelli proposed to Duke Cosimo I numerous projects, after his return from Rome to Florence, and he was asked to work on important commissions. As he was favored by the court and surrounded by disciples, he held a powerful influence on Florentine art during his lifetime. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) began, during his stay at the French court, to model full-scale figures for bronze-casting; at this time he was about forty years old. After his return to Florence Duke Cosimo gave him a commission to do a statue of Perseus. He cast the over-life-size bronze of Perseus and Medusa (1545-54). Thanks to this work he was accepted as a sculptor of rank, and in the following years he even carved marble statues. Nevertheless, he continued to make jewelry and medals throughout his life. Domenico Poggini (I520-90) was more than thirty years of age when he began to make full-scale sculpture. In 1554 he carved his marble Bacchus. In the following years, he contributed reliefs and figures of terracotta to enterprises being carried on by the Accademia del Disegno. For Duke Cosimo he carved marble statues, and he did beautiful portraits. Besides this, he struck and cast medals, was the duke's die-cutter (I556), and master of the Florentine mint. He even wrote poems, as did many in his time; some of them have come down to us.