Santi Buglioni
Italian sculptor (1494-1576)
Santi Buglioni, by the name of Santi di Michele (25 December 1494 – 27 November 1576) was an important Renaissance Italian sculptor, the nephew and collaborator of Benedetto Buglioni.
He was born on December 25, 1494, and his mother Francesca Mori was a near relative of Lisabetta Mori, the wife of Benedetto Buglioni. Hence it was natural that Santi should have become in 1513 a ward and pupil of his distinguished relative.
The early artworks
After Luca della Robbia had moved to France to escape the plague, the Buglioni family inherited from him the secrets of the new pottery glaze techniques. According to Giorgio Vasari, the Buglioni learnt della Robbia's secret through a woman who frequented his house.
In his early works he was the assistant and pupil of Benedetto Buglioni. The monuments at Badia Tedalda reveal him cooperating with Benedetto in the Madonna della Cintola (1521) and as an independent artist in the altarpiece of the Annunciation and Saints (1522). After the death of Benedetto Buglioni the young Santi began a career of more ambitious works.
The monumental frieze in Pistoia
Undoubtedly his most remarkable and famous work, which far exceeds in importance all his remaining activity, is the frieze with the Works of Mercy, in glazed and coloured terracotta, on the façade of the Spedale del Ceppo in Pistoia. For centuries, the undertaking was attributed to Giovanni della Robbia; however, it is clear from the payment documents that Santi Buglioni was the main executor.
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