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Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs
( fl c. 1486–c. 1515). Italian sculptor. He is named after the three bronze reliefs of the Coronation of the Virgin (see fig.), the Assumption of the Virgin and the Twelve Apostles (Venice, Ca’ d’Oro) that formerly decorated the altar donated by the BARBARIGO family for a double tomb in the church of S Maria della Carità in Venice (now the Galleria dell’Accademia). Other fragments surviving from the tombs (dismantled 1808) include a marble kneeling effigy of Doge Agostino Barbarigo (Venice, ante-sacristy of S Maria della Salute) and a limestone relief of the Resurrection (Venice, Scu. Grande S Giovanni Evangelista). The Barbarigo tomb is recorded in an engraving of 1692 (Venice, Correr, Raccolta Ghesso, iii, no. 435), which shows that the reliefs decorated the altar of the central barrel-vaulted bay, flanked on either side by the kneeling figures of Marco Barbarigo and Agostino Barbarigo. In each adjacent bay was a reclining effigy on a bier supported by a console. Documentary evidence suggests that work on the tombs began c. 1486, the date of Doge Marco Barbarigo’s death, and that the reliefs were completed by 1515.
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