List of Italians - Sculptors

Sculptors

• Agostino di Duccio (1418 – c. 1481), sculptor whose work is characterized by its linear decorativeness
• Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (c. 1447–1522), sculptor, architect and engineer; he took part in the sculpture of the great octagonal dome of Milan Cathedral
• Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511–1592), sculptor and architect; his works, the two members of the del Monte family and the Fountains of Juno and Neptune, are generally considered his masterpieces
• Benedetto Antelami (c. 1150 – c. 1230), sculptor and architect. He is credited with the sculptural decorations of Fidenza Cathedral and Ferrara Cathedral
• Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240–1300/1310), sculptor and architect; his sculptures have a strong sense of volume that shows the influence on him of antique Roman models
• Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1493–1560), sculptor and painter; his most famous and conspicuous sculpture is Hercules and Cacus (1527–34), a pendant to Michelangelo's David
• Lorenzo Bartolini (1777–1850), sculptor; his most imposing creation is the Nicola Demidoff monument in Florence
• Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497), sculptor and architect; whose work is characterized by its decorative elegance and realistic detail
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), sculptor and architect. The greatest artist of the Baroque period; his best works are Apollo and Daphne (1622–25) and Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (1647–1652)
• Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), painter and sculptor. The leading theorist of futurist art; his sculpture, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913) is generally considered his masterpiece
• Antonio Canova (1757–1822), sculptor. Leading exponent of the neoclassical school; Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1787–93, 1800–03) is one of his best works
• Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), goldsmith, medallist, sculptor and writer. He was one of the foremost Italian Mannerist artists of the 16th century
• Vincenzo Danti (1530–1576), sculptor, architect, and writer, born in Perugia and active mainly in Florence
• Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525), sculptor; his best works are: Crucifixion and the Assumption of the Virgin at La Verna
• Desiderio da Settignano (c. 1430–1464), sculptor; his delicate, sensitive, original technique was best expressed in portrait busts of women and children
• Donatello (c. 1386–1466), sculptor. On of greatest artists of all time, renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David (c. 1440)
• Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652–1725), sculptor and architect; the foremost Florentine sculptor of the late Baroque period
• Domenico Gagini (1420–1492), sculptor. Although he worked at times in Florence and Rome, he was best known for his activity in northern Italy
• Silvio Gazzaniga (born 1921), sculptor. He is the artist who designed and created the FIFA World Cup Trophy
• Vincenzo Gemito (1852–1929), the most important Italian sculptor of the late 19th century and is increasingly regarded as one of its greatest draughtsmen
• Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378–1455), sculptor, goldsmith and designer active in Florence
• Giambologna (1529–1608), sculptor. The greatest artist of the age of Mannerism; his best works are Fountain of Neptune (1563–67) and The Rape of the Sabine Women (1574–80)
• Jacopo della Quercia (c. 1374–1438), sculptor; he is especially noted for his imposing allegorical figures for the Gaia Fountain in Siena
• Francesco Laurana (c. 1430–1502), sculptor; he is best known for his portrait busts of women, characterized by serene, detached dignity and aristocratic elegance
• Leone Leoni (1509–1590), sculptor and medalist; his most important works were kneeling bronze figures of Charles V and Philip II, with their families, for the sanctuary in the Escorial
• Tullio Lombardo (1460–1532), sculptor; he is noted for the mausoleum of Doge Pietro Mocenigo in Santi Giovanni e Paolo and for other tombs, including that of Dante at Ravenna
• Stefano Maderno (c. 1576–1636), sculptor. He was one of the leading sculptors in Rome during the papacy of Paul V (1605–1621)
• Giacomo Manzù (1908–1991), sculptor; he is best known for his relief sculptures, which give contemporary dimensions to Christian themes
• Marino Marini (1901–1980), sculptor; best known for his many vigorous sculptures of horses and horsemen (e.g., Horse and Rider, 1952–53)
• Arturo Martini (1889–1947), sculptor who was active between the World Wars. He is known for figurative sculptures executed in a wide variety of styles and materials
• Michelangelo (1475–1564), sculptor and painter; one of the most famous artists in history; his best creations are: Pietà (1499) and David (1504)
• Mino da Fiesole (c. 1429–1484), sculptor; he is noted for his portrait busts
• Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli (c. 1506–1563), sculptor of the Michelangelesque school, and seems to have acted as assistant to Michelangelo
• Nanni di Banco (c. 1384–1421), sculptor; the classically influenced Four Crowned Martyrs (c. 1415) is considered his masterpiece
• Niccolò dell'Arca (c. 1435/1440–1494), sculptor. The Ragusa, Bari, and Apulia variants of his name suggest that he might have come from southern Italy
• Andrea Pisano (1290–1348), sculptor; his most important work, the first bronze doors of the Baptistery in Florence, was begun in 1330
• Giovanni Pisano (c. 1250 – c. 1315), sculptor, painter and architect; his most famous work is the Pulpit of St. Andrew (1301)
• Nicola Pisano (1220/1225–1284), sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture
• Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 1926), sculptor; one of the most famous contemporary artists
• Luca della Robbia (1399/1400–1482), sculptor, the most famous member of a family of artists. Two of his famous works are The Nativity (c. 1460) and Madonna and Child (c. 1475)
• Bernardo Rossellino (1409–1464), sculptor and architect. He was among the most distinguished Florentine marble sculptors in the second half of the 15th century
• Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720–1793), sculptor; his masterpiece in this genre is the four Virtues of Charles of Bourbon (1763–4)
• Andrea Sansovino (c. 1467–1529), sculptor; his statues and reliefs for church decoration, such as the Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1512) at San Agostino, were greatly admired
• Pietro Torrigiano (1472–1528), sculptor; his gilt bronze masterpiece, the tomb of King Henry VII and his queen, is preserved in Westminster Abbey
• Vecchietta (1410–1480), painter, sculptor, goldsmith, architect and military engineer. One of the most influential artists of the early Renaissance
• Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608), sculptor. He was celebrated for his portrait busts and decorative work, much of which was created for the restoration of the Doge's Palace