LANDINI, Taddeo
(b. ca. 1550, Firenze, d. 1596, Roma)

Bust of Pope Sixtus V

1585-90
Bronze
Bode Museum, Berlin

In Rome Guglielmo della Porta's successors were Taddeo Landini and the bronze-caster Vastiano Torrigiani, whose three bronze busts of Pope Sixtus V are the most penetrating portrait sculptures produced in Rome between the death of Paul III and the advent of Bernini.




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