Benedetto Briosco
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Benedetto Briosco was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, active in Lombardy c. 1477-1514.
One of his first documented works his the sepulchre statue of Ambrogio Grifi in the church of San Pietro in Gessate in Milan, characterized by a crude realism (1489). Also from his early years, in which he collaborated with Francesco Cazzaniga, are the Brivio Monument in the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio (1489) and the Della Torre Monument in Santa Maria delle Grazie (1483-84).
From circa 1492 he was active in the works of the Certosa di Pavia. He collaborated to the decoration of the façade with Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (to which he succeeded after his deaths, being the sole responsible of the main portal of 1501-1507) and to the sepulchre of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (under Giovanni Cristoforo Romano). In 1508-13 he worked in the Cathedral of Cremona (Arch of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus) and the tomb of Ludovico II of Saluzzo in the church of St. John of that city.
He sculpted the noteworthy statue of St. Anne for the Duomo of Milan (1492), now in the cathedral's museum. From 1495 is the Longhignana monument once in the church of San Pietro in Gessate, and now in the Palazzo Borromeo at the Isola Bella.
[edit] Sources
- Bossaglia, Rossana (1968). "La scultura", in M. G. Albertini Ottolenghi, R. Bossaglia, F. R. Pesenti ed.: La Certosa di Pavia, 41-80.
- Zani, Vito (1998). "L'altare di Santa Caterina nel Duomo di Milano e la maturità di Benedetto Briosco". Nuovi studi (5): 39-64.
