#antonio lombardo

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Antonio Lombardo (Italian, c.1456 - 1516) Venus Anadyomène, c.1510 Inscribed on base; NVDA VENVS MADDIDAS EXPRIMIT IMBRE COMAS

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▪︎Eurydice.

Maker: Circle of Antonio Lombardo

Date: ca. 1515– 1524

Culture: Italian, Padua

Medium: Marble

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Marble reliefs in the Chapel of Saint Anthony, Basilica di Sant’Antonio, Padua

(1) A New-born Child Affirms the Honesty of His Mother, by Antonio Lombardo, 1505 (2) The Miracle of the Reattached Foot, by Tullio Lombardo, 1525 (3) The Miracle of the Miser's Heart by Tullio Lombardo, 1525

These stories were also executed in bronze by Donatello for the high altar of the Basilica (c.1447-50).

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Antonio Lombardo, The Birth of Athena at the Forge of Vulcan. 1508-11

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Attributed to Antonio Lombardo (Venice, c. 1458-1516), Saint Anthony of Padua and the Miracle of the Miser's Heart, 1501, pen and brown ink, brown wash, 24.8 x 39.3 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In June 1501, the Venetian brothers Antonio and Tullio Lombardo were commissioned to carve marble reliefs for the Chapel of Saint Anthony in the Saint’s Basilica in Padua, based on the approval of a drawing to be submitted by the artists. Antonio never completed his relief, on the subject of the miser’s heart, though it was much later executed, with several variations, by Tullio. This recently acquired drawing appears to be the only record of Antonio’s original idea for the composition and is one of two extant drawings that can be attributed to him.

Preaching on the sin of greed, Saint Anthony told his listeners that a man's heart ends up with his treasures; to prove his point, he showed them the body of a miser who had recently died.  On opening his body, it was found empty: his heart was discovered, as Saint Anthony had predicted, with his gold in his money-chest.

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▪Relief: Naiad between Two Tritons. Place of origin: Italy, Ferrara Author/Artist: Lombardo, Antonio I (and his workshop, ca. 1458-1516) Date: ca. 1508 Medium: Marble

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