Alessandro Leopardi

Alessandro Leopardi (sometimes called Leopardo) (1466 [citation needed] – 1512) was a Venetian sculptor, bronze founder and architect.[1] He was once reputed to have designed the sepulchral monument of doge Andrea Vendramin, now in the church of San Giovanni e Paolo, but this is generally now thought to have been the work of Tullio Lombardo, though Leopardi may have contributed some figures.[2] In 1479 he submitted a model for the competition initiated by the Signoria in Venice to find a sculptor for an equestrian monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni.[6] In 1505 he designed and cast the bronze bases, decorated in high relief, for the three great mast-like flagpoles in the Piazza San Marco.[9] After the disastrous fire at the Rialto in January 1514 he was one of the four architects who submitted models for the rebuilding of the area, but the contract was given to Scarpagnino.
Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio, cast by Leopardi
Engraving of the base of the central flagpole in Piazza San Marco
Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni on the pedestal made for it by Leopardi
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