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Campanato, Pietro di Giovanni Battista [Pietro delle Campane]
(b ?Venice, c. 1460; d Venice, 18 Oct 1542). Italian bronze-caster. During a period of revival in bronze-casting, he was trained in the workshop of Alvise Campanato in the parish of S Luca, Venice, establishing his own bronze foundry probably during the 1480s and becoming prominent as a caster of cannons. From 1504 to 1515, with Giovanni Alberghetti and Paolo di Matteo Savin, Campanato was involved in bronze-casting from models by Alessandro Leopardi, Tullio Lombardo §II and Antonio Lombardo for the chapel of Cardinal Zen in S Marco, Venice. The bronze statue of the Virgin and Child for this chapel by Antonio Lombardo (see LOMBARDO, §II(3)) bears the inscription PETRI IOANNIS CAMPANATI M.DXV. In 1521 Pietro also cast one of the bronze doors. Of his eighteen children, three were employed in his large workshop.
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