page_title: Andrea Riccio
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caption_attribution_description: Britain Loves Wikipedia at the Victoria and Albert Museum Satyr and satyress English: Satyr and satyress About 1510-20 Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (1470-1532) Italy, Padua Bronze Riccio was probably the greatest sculptor of small bronzes in Renaissance Italy. He had close ties with the scholars of Padua University, who encouraged his interest in antiquity and owned many of his intimate figure groups. Here Riccio shows the lustful nature of the satyrs but also their tender relationship. In this group Riccio challenges the notion of the Satyr as a wanton beast driven purely by carnal desires by creating a tender scene of intimacy between two creatures, albeit with an overt sexuality. The Satyr and Satyress sit intertwined on a shallow integral base, their arms around each other's shoulders, her right leg resting over his left. The Satyr touches his partner's neck with his fingertips, his thumb resting on her chin, their lips pursed as if about to kiss. The sexes are differentiated even in the detail: for example the male's eyebrows are marked with lines to indicate hair, while the female's are smooth. In contrast to her partner's goatlike legs, those of the Satyress, though hairy, are shapely like human's. Her hair is dressed elaborately, interwoven with ribbons and beads, and topped with a tiara decorated with shells; at the back it is tucked into swags, with ribbons that drape over the shoulders Presented by The Art Fund Collection ID: A.8-1949 This photo was taken as part of Britain Loves Wikipedia in February 2010 by art_traveller.
context_page_description: Andrea Riccio was an Italian sculptor and occasional architect, whose real name was Andrea Briosco, but is usually known by his sobriquet meaning "curly"; he is also known as Il Riccio and Andrea Crispus. He is mainly known for small bronzes, often practical objects such as inkwells, door knockers or fire-dogs, exquisitely sculpted and decorated in a classicising Renaissance style.
  He was born at Padua, and first trained as a goldsmith by his father, Ambrogio di Cristoforo Briosco. He later began to study bronze casting under Bartolomeo Bellano, a pupil of Donatello. As an architect, he is known for the church of Santa Giustina in his native city. His masterpieces are the bronze Paschal candelabrum in the choir in Basilica of Sant'Antonio at Padua, and the two bronze reliefs of David dancing before the Ark and Judith and Holofernes in the same church. His bronze and marble tomb of the physician Girolamo della Torre in the church of San Fermo at Verona was beautifully decorated with reliefs, which were taken away by the French and are now in the Louvre. His smaller, easily transportable, works appealed to collectors across Europe.
context_section_description: Andrea Riccio (c. 1470 – 1532) was an Italian sculptor and occasional architect, whose real name was Andrea Briosco, but is usually known by his sobriquet meaning "curly"; he is also known as Il Riccio and Andrea Crispus ("curly" in Latin).  He is mainly known for small bronzes, often practical objects such as inkwells, door knockers or fire-dogs, exquisitely sculpted and decorated in a classicising Renaissance style.
  He was born at Padua, and first trained as a goldsmith by his father, Ambrogio di Cristoforo Briosco.  He later began to study bronze casting under Bartolomeo Bellano, a pupil of Donatello.   As an architect, he is known for the church of Santa Giustina in his native city.  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 Torre in the church of San Fermo at Verona was beautifully decorated with reliefs, which were taken away by the French and are now in the Louvre.  His smaller, easily transportable, works appealed to collectors across Europe. A bronze lamp made by Riccio was a longtime possession of the Rothschild family, and is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
caption: Satyr and Satyress, about 1510-1520, Victoria and Albert Museum
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