Pavement decoration
by TRIBOLO, Niccolò, Marble
During his dozen years’ service with Cosimo I, Tribolo undertook an extraordinary miscellany of tasks. These included decorations for state occasions, firework displays, theatrical costumes and d�cor as well as water conservation and other hydraulic projects. More specifically, he was also responsible for the design and supervision of the monumental tomb of Matteo Corte (marble, 1544-48; Pisa, Campo Santo), which was executed by Antonio Lorenzi (d 1583); the installation of Michelangelo’s sculpture in the Medici Chapel at San Lorenzo (1546); the design and installation of the elaborate pavement in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at San Lorenzo; new gardens for the Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano, near Florence; and the continuing work at Castello.