Alessandro Vittoria

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Alessandro Vittoria (1525 – 1608) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, who was trained in the atelier of the architect-sculptor Jacopo Sansovino and a contemporary of Titian who was influenced by the painter in his compositions. He was a virtuoso in terracotta, marble and bronze. Like all Italian sculptors of his generation, Vittoria was influenced also by Michelangelo and by the Florentine Mannerist, Bartolomeo Ammanati.

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, 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.

Vittoria is known for portrait busts and for medals as well as for his full-length figures, some of which surmount Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana.

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• J. Paul Getty Museum: vita
• Web Gallery of Art Biography
• Portrait of the artist by Paolo Veronese.
• Relief of Annunciation at Art Institute of Chicago