(b Florence, c. 1530; d Pinczów, nr Kielce, 1599–1600). Italian sculptor and architect, active in Poland. He was the son of Giovanni Gucci (Giovanni della Camilla; d 1566), who had worked on the restoration of Florence Cathedral, and was the step-brother of Francesco Camilliani (d 1586), a sculptor and Baccio Bandinelli’s disciple. He was trained at his father’s workshop and probably also at that of Bandinelli. After 1550 he went to Poland and settled in Kraków, where he initially represented the all’antica Italian Renaissance style. From 1558 he was the architect to the Polish monarchs Sigismund II Augustus, Anna Jagiellon and Stephen Bathory (reg 1576–86). He also worked for the noble families of the Firlejs and Myszkowskis: for example he designed the layout of the private town of Pinczów for the latter family. He was simultaneously a citizen of Kraków and of Pinczów, where he leased a quarry from the Myszkowskis. The Pinczów sandstone served him as material for numerous tombs, fonts, portals and fountains.

• Gucci, Santi
  • Kraków, §I, 1: History and urban development, before c 1600
  • Poland, §II, 2: Architecture, c 1500–c 1700
  • patrons and collectors
    • Zamoyski: (1) Jan Zamoyski
  • works
    • Garden, §VIII, 3(iii): Early Renaissance: Elsewhere
    • Kraków, §IV, 2(ii): Wawel: Cathedral: Sigismund Chapel
    • Mosca Padovano, Giovanni Maria
    • Poland, §IV, 3: Sculpture, c 1520–c 1620
    • Town hall, §2: Guildhalls and town halls, 12th–18th centuries