Federico Brandani [SEP] place of death
Federico Brandani
Federico Brandani (1522/1525 – 1575) was an Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. 
Born in Urbino, Brandani was apprenticed there to Giovanni Maria di Casteldurante, a maiolica artist, between 1538 and 1541. 
There are stucco wall and ceiling decorations by Brandani in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. His masterpiece is considered to be his "presepio", a nativity scene with life-size stucco figures, which
reattributed to Brandani by John Pope-Hennessy. Galli also served Guidobaldo della Rovere, as tutor to his son and as his ambassador at Rome and Venice. The bust, identified as Galli by a later inscription on the base, is the only bronze casting attributed to this sculptor, and the only portrait.
Brandani was virtually forgotten until he was brought into focus as the premier sixteenth-century sculptor in Marche by Luigi Serra in the 1920s.
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- Federico Brandani