St Antoninus
by GIAMBOLOGNA, Bronze
The photograph shows the effigy of St Antoninus upon its original reliquary, later dismantled.
In designing the effigy of St Antoninus, Giambologna followed such Quattrocento models as Rossellino’s tomb for the Cardinal of Portugal and Donatello’s tomb for the Antipope John XXIII. He did not attempt to enliven his figure any way, perhaps to adopt a style that evoked Antoninus’s own period.
Giambologna’s bronze (cast by Fra Domenico Portigiani from the monastery of San Marco) was moved from the Salviati Chapel into the Sacristy during the eighteenth-century reconfiguration of the chapel.