Benedetto Briosco

The portal of the Certosa di Pavia.

Benedetto Briosco (c. 1477-1514) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, active in Lombardy.

Likely having apprenticed in Milan, his sepulchre monument of Ambrogio Grifi (1489) in the church of San Pietro in Gessate in Milan is his first documented work. The statue is characterized by a crude realism. Also from his early years, in which he collaborated with Francesco Cazzaniga, are the Brivio Monument in the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio (1489) and the Della Torre Monument in Santa Maria delle Grazie (1483-84).

From circa 1492 he was active in the sculptural program of the Certosa di Pavia. He collaborated to the decoration of the façade with Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, and succeeded, after the death of Amadeo, to become the sole director of the design and sculpting of the main portal (1501-1507) and to the sepulchre of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (under Giovanni Cristoforo Romano). In 1508-13 he worked in the Cathedral of Cremona (Arch of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus) and the tomb of Ludovico II of Saluzzo in the church of St. John of that city.

He sculpted the noteworthy statue of St. Anne for the Duomo of Milan (1492), now in the cathedral's museum. From 1495 is the Longhignana monument once in the church of San Pietro in Gessate, and now in the Palazzo Borromeo at the Isola Bella.

Sources

• Bossaglia, Rossana (1968). "La scultura". In M. G. Albertini Ottolenghi, R. Bossaglia, F. R. Pesenti ed. (ed.). La Certosa di Pavia. Milan. pp. 41–80. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Zani, Vito (1998). "L'altare di Santa Caterina nel Duomo di Milano e la maturità di Benedetto Briosco". Nuovi studi (5): 39–64.
• Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007. pp. page 221. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)