Bandinelli was the son of Michelangelo de'Brandini, a successful Florentine goldsmith. Baccio was a loyal subject of the Medici, even when they were in exile 1494-1513; consequently he was rewarded by receiving commissions after the elections to the papacy of Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici) and Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), and after Cosimo de' Medici became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1537. His political patronage made him unpopular with most Florentines, including Michelangelo, who were Republicans and criticized his art works. Florentine sculptor and architect. Comment on works: Sculptor & painter; Religious

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Baccio Bandinelli

Biography

Artworks

A Seated Man Declaiming from a Book

Study for a Standing Young Man, Raising a Curtain and Looking at Left

Seated Figure with Cloak and Turban

Three Male Heads

A Rocky Outcrop

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli

Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli, in three-quarter length next to a window pane containing a statuette and statuette fragments, the artist grasps with his right hand the head of a statuette resting at his left side

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, after Bandinelli

The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death as a winged skeleton standing above it holding an open book

Seated Man Holding a Flute

Massacre of the Innocents

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli with Lion

Hercules with his Club and Lion Skin

Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici in full armor, his left hand resting on a staff

Neptune

Four Male Heads

Two Male Nudes

Two Male Nudes

The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death as a winged skeleton standing above it holding an open book

Two Studies of the Head of a Youth

Academic Male Nude Representing Hercules with Nessus's Robe (recto and verso)

Saul and David

First Family Before a Shelter