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Lastricati, Zanobi (di Bernardo)
(b Florence, 13 Dec 1508; d Florence, 14 April 1590). Italian sculptor and bronze-caster. He is first mentioned in connection with the casting of the bronze putti, after terracotta models by Pierino da Vinci, which are placed around the rim of the basin of Niccolò Tribolo’s Fountain of Hercules (c. 1546) for the Medici villa at Castello. In 1548, together with his brother Alessandro (d 1575), also a founder, he assisted Benvenuto Cellini in the casting of the Medusa for the Perseus group (Florence, Loggia Lanzi; see CELLINI, BENVENUTO, fig. 6). The bronze Mercury that Vasari says Lastricati cast after a model by ‘Ciano profumiere’ (the sculptor Bastiano di Francesco d’Jacopo) for the courtyard of Lorenzo Ridolfi’s palazzo in via Tornabuoni, Florence, has been identified as the signed bronze now in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, and dated to 1549–51. Lastricati was paid in 1556 for ‘campanelle a diamanti’ (probably bronze door-knockers in the form of the Medici diamond ring) for new apartments in the Palazzo Vecchio, and in 1560 he cast Vincenzio Danti’s bronze sportello (‘safe-door’; Florence, Bargello) for Cosimo I’s antechamber there. In 1564 he was chosen by the Accademia del Disegno as provveditore (‘comptroller’) for Michelangelo’s obsequies, for which he designed the marble figure of Fame (drawing, Munich, Staatl. Graph. Samml.) for the pyramid surmounting the catafalque in the church of S Lorenzo, Florence. The following year, in collaboration with Giovanni Vincenzo Casali (c. 1540–93), he supplied six temporary statues (destr.) on the Porta al Prato for the triumphal entry into Florence of Joanna of Austria, bride of Francesco I de’ Medici. Between 1570 and 1571, in collaboration with Danti, he completed the gesso figure of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Joshua for the Cappella di S Luca in SS Annunziata. For the festivities for the baptism of Filippo de’ Medici in 1577 he supplied a terracotta puppet on a cart. The last years of his life were spent working at the Medici fort in Siena, probably as an artillery founder (bombardiere). Vasari described him as a good and able marble sculptor and bronze-caster.
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