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Giovan Francesco Rustici,〔 or Giovanni Francesco Rustici,〔 〕 (1475–1554) was an Italian Renaissance painter〔No paintings securely attributed to him survive.〕 and sculptor. __NOTOC__ He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income. Rustici profited from study of the Medici sculpture in the garden at San Marco, and Vasari said that Lorenzo de' Medici placed him in the studio of Verrocchio,〔Other sculptors from Verrocchio's atelier included Francesco di Simone and Agnolo di Polo.〕 and that after Verrocchio's departure for Venice, he placed himself with Leonardo da Vinci, who had also trained in Verocchio's workshop. He shared lodgings with Leonardo while he was working on the bronze figures for the Baptistry, for which he was ill paid and resolved, according to Vasari, not to work again on a public commission. Moreover, an echo of Leonardo's inspiration is unmistakable in the much-discussed and much-reviled wax bust of "Flora" in Berlin, ascribed to a circle of Leonardo and most probably to Rustici. At this time, Pomponius Gauricus, in ''De sculptura'' (1504), named him one of the principal sculptors of Tuscany, the peer of Benedetto da Maiano, Andrea Sansovino and Michelangelo. It may have been made in France, perhaps in the circle of Rustici, who entered Francis I's service in 1528. Vasari tells of the elaborate suppers given by Rustici and his comrades. Rustici's ''Mercury'' was commissioned by Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici in 1515 as a fountain figure for the courtyard of Palazzo Medici in Florence. The figure blew a jet of water that spun a whirligig with four vanes in the form of butterfly wings, according to Giorgio Vasari's description.〔Vasari, ''Vita'' of Giovanni Francesaco Rustici.〕 According to James Draper, Rustici's figure drew inspiration from the mid-fifteenth century gilt-bronze fountain ''Winged Infant'' now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.〔The connection to Rustici's ''Mercury'' of this figure by a sculptor "close to Donatello" was made by James David Draper, ''Notable Acquisitions'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art), No. 1983/1984 (1983-84), pp. 26-44〕 Vasari praised the sculpture, now in the Boscawen collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.〔()(Press release ); the sculpture was illustrated on the cover of ''The Burlington Magazine'' 139 No. 1137 (December 1997).〕 At the time of the siege of Florence, 1528, he went to France, where he was pensioned by King Francis I but after the king's death died in poverty at Tours. Baccio Bandinelli apprenticed with Rustici. Some glazed terracotta bas-reliefs in the technique familiar from the della Robbia workshops, are attributed to Rustici, notably a ''Madonna and Child'' in the Bargello and a ''Saint John the Baptist'' in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. == Major works == * ''Bust of Boccaccio'' (1503) for Giovanni Boccaccio's funeral monument at Certaldo (). * ''John the Baptist with the Pharisee and the Levite''. Three figures on the Baptistery, Florence. The work was commissioned in 1506 to replace Late Gothic figures by Tino da Camaino. * ''Mercury taking Flight''. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII), to decorate a fountain in the garden court of Palazzo Medici, Florence, probably in 1515. It was probably installed above the fountain bowl that originally held Donatello's 'Judith'. * ''The Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist''. Bas-relief marble and onyx tondo. Louvre Museum. * ''Virgin and Child'' Bas-relief bronze plaque, attributed to Rustici. Louvre Museum. * ''Battle scene''. Terracotta. A horseman and four assailants, showing the influence of Leonardo's drawings. Louvre Museum. *Fountain, the design attributed to Leonardo.〔Attributed to Leonardo by John Pope-Hennessy, in ''Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook'' 4.〕 Formerly at Woolbeding House, Surrey (Victoria and Albert Museum) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giovanni Francesco Rustici」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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