Agostino di Duccio

/ aɡoˈstiːno dɪ ˈduttʃo /

noun

1. Agostino di Duccio14151481MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor 1415–81, Italian sculptor, noted for his carved marble panels in the interior of the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini

Example Sentences

It was not only Agostino di Duccio who was overmatched — the quarriers were, too.

From New York Times

Michelangelo was a native of the quarrying world, fluent in its ways, but the sculptor who chose the block, Agostino di Duccio, was largely ignorant of them.

From New York Times

He died on the 20th of February 1482, leaving his property to his nephews Andrea and Simone.9 His chief pupil was his nephew Andrea, and Agostino di Duccio, who executed many pieces of sculpture at Rimini, and the graceful but mannered marble reliefs of angels on the fa�ade of S. Bernardino at Perugia, may have been one of his assistants.10 Vasari calls this Agostino Luca’s brother, but he was not related to him at all.

From Project Gutenberg

In feeling, and in many of his decorative forms, his drawings recall the art of Florentine bas-relief, when Agostino di Duccio, or Rossellino or Mino da Fiesole, created shapes of delicate sweetness, pure, graceful—so graceful that their power is hardly realized.

From Project Gutenberg

Florentine sculpture seemed about to languish away from an excess of grace in the delicate and meticulous art of Rossellino, Disiderio, Mino da Fiesole, Agostino di Duccio, Benedetto da Maiano and Andrea Sansovino.

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