Alessandro Vittoria
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Alessandro Vittoria
Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608) was an Italian Mannerist
sculptor of the Venetian school, "one of the main
representatives of the Venetian classical style" and
rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late
16th century in Italy.
Vittoria was born in the Italian
city of Trent and was the son of a tailor. Vittoria was
trained in the atelier of the architect-sculptor Jacopo
Sansovino; he was a contemporary of Titian whose influence
can be detected in his compositions. He was a virtuoso in
terracotta, often presented with gilded surfaces, marble and
bronze. Like all Italian sculptors of his generation,
Vittoria was influenced also by Michelangelo and by the
Florentine Mannerist, Bartolomeo Ammanati. The closeness of
his associations in projects by architects Sansovino,
Sanmicheli and Palladio, working with painters Titian,
Tintoretto and Veronese placed him squarely among the
protagonists of the Cinquecento art world in late
16th-century Venice.
A Lady of the Zorzi Family, terra cotta of 1570/1580 in the
National Gallery of Art.Vittoria was first trained in his
native city, Trento, then moved to Venice, where his long
artistic relationship with Sansovino was a stormy one. After
one quarrel with Sansovino, he removed from Venice and
worked in Vicenza, where he collaborated with Veronese on
the decorations of the Villa Barbaro at Maser (1560–62)
before returning. The two masters worked jointly on great
sculptural commissions until Sansovino's death. Vittoria
took up his studio and completed Sansovino's unfinished
commissions. One of his pupils was Camillo Mariani.
He died at Venice in 1608. His tomb,
with his self-portrait bust, is in the church of San
Zaccaria.
Vittoria is known for his
classicising portrait busts, a genre that scarcely existed
in Venice before him, and for medals as well as for his
full-length figures, some of which surmount Sansovino's
Biblioteca Marciana.
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Alessandro Vittoria.
Christ Resurrected
1581
Marble
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
Ottaviano Grimaldi
1571-76
Marble, height: 80,5 cm with socle
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Alessandro Vittoria.
The Parish Priest Benedetto Manzini
c. 1550
Marble
Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
Milo of Croton
c. 1590
Bronze
Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
Neptune with Sea-Horse
1580-85
Bronze, height: 50 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Alessandro Vittoria.
St Jerome
c. 1576
Marble
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
St Sebastian
1561-63
Marble, height 117 cm
San Francesco della Vigna, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
St Sebastian
c. 1600
Marble, height 170 cm
San Salvatore, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
St John the Baptist
1583-84
Bronze, height: 71 cm
San Francesco della Vigna, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
St Peter (detail)
Bronze
Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria. St Jerome
1565
Marble
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Alessandro Vittoria.
Bust of a Zorzi lady
Alessandro Vittoria.
Ottavio Grimani
Alessandro Vittoria.
Mercurio, 1559-60
Alessandro Vittoria.
San Sebastiano, 1566
Alessandro Vittoria.
Statue of Saint
Zachary.
1543. Venice, Italy
