I fratelli Terrandi da Gandino

• Autores: Andrea Franci
• Localización: Rivista d'arte: periodico internazionale di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna, ISSN 1122-0732, Nº. 4, 2014, págs. 85-102
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • In 1518 Bartolomeo and Giovanni Antonio di Francesco Terrandi, two brothers from Gandino (near Bergamo), asked the Venetian Senate's permission to build a new kind of mill that they have invented and they applied for a patent. They were not very famous artists in Venice, and they probably saw the chance to establish themselves by utilizing technologies used in their place of origin, Gandino, which later became a famous centre in Europe for the production of woolen clothes. The most famous of the two brothers was Bartolomeo and his works were the subjects of letters between Lorenzo Lotto, Bernard Marin and Marcantonio Mozzi. This correspondence sheds light on the relationship between patrons and artists and on the way sculpture could be appreciated by learned people.