Andrea Briosco

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Andrea Briosco (c. 1470 - 1532) was an Italian sculptor and architect, also known as Il Riccio ("Curly"), Andrea Riccio and Andrea Crispus.

He was born at Padua, and first trained as a goldsmith by his father, Ambrogio di Cristoforo Briosco. He later became interested in bronze sculpting and began studying under a student of Donatello. He was known to decorate everyday objects with bronze mythological figures. In architecture, he is known by the church of Santa Giustina in his native city, but he is most famous as a worker in metal. His masterpieces are the bronze Paschal candelabrum in the choir in Basilica of Sant'Antonio at Padua (1515), and the two bronze reliefs (1507) of David dancing before the Ark and Judith and Holofernes in the same church. His bronze and marble tomb of the physician Girolamo della Terre in San Fermo at Verona was beautifully decorated with reliefs, which were taken away by the French and are now in the Louvre.