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(2) Antonio (di Giovanni) Minello (de’ Bardi)
(b Padua, c. 1465; d Venice, ?1529). Italian sculptor, son of (1) Giovanni Minello. He worked in a stolid, classicizing style influenced by the Lombardo family of sculptors and architects. Antonio is first recorded working as an assistant to his father on 10 April 1483. They worked together on the choir-screen of Il Santo in Padua and, after 1500, on the chapel of S Antonio in the basilica. During 1510–11 he carved 15 half-length Prophets on the portal of S Petronio, Bologna, together with Antonio da Ostiglia. On his return to Padua, Minello completed the statue of St Justina in the leftmost niche above the entrance to the chapel of S Antonio in 1512 and in 1517 delivered the Investiture of St Anthony, the first relief on the left in the chapel. From 1523 to 1529 he worked on the relief of the Miracle of the Parrasio Boy, which was finished by Jacopo Sansovino in 1536. Schulz also attributed to him the tombs of Nicolo Orsini, Leonardo da Prato and Dionigi Naldi (1513–15; Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo). In the early 1520s Minello moved to Venice, where, in 1524, he purchased the contents of the workshop of Lorenzo Bregno. He completed a Virgin (Montagnana Cathedral) begun by Bregno and also took over Bregno’s commission for statues of saints on the Trevisian altar (Venice, S Maria Mater Domini). In 1527 Minello executed a statuette of Mercury (London, V&A) for Marcantonio Michiel. A head of Hercules (untraced), recorded by Michiel as in Andrea Odoni’s collection, is probably depicted on the right in Odoni’s portrait by Lorenzo Lotto (London, Hampton Court, Royal Col.). Minello was last documented in January 1529 and presumably he died that year.
Part of the Minello family
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