Praxiteles rules marble; brilliant Apelles painting
Vulcan, lord of fire, rules iron; Riccio is sovereign over bronze.
— Francesco Savonarola, 1560
| 1470 |
Born in Trent. Trained as a master
goldsmith by his father, Ambrogio
Briosco. |
| 1492 |
Ambrogio moves the family workshop
to Padua. |
| c. 1497 |
First mentioned as a bronze sculptor,
working for Donatello’s pupil
Bartolomeo Bellano. |
| c. 1500 |
Creates the bronze reliquary Altar of
the True Cross in Santa Maria dei
Servi, Venice. |
| 1504 |
Pomponius Gauricus’s treatise De
Sculptura extols Riccio as a master
modeler and bronze sculptor. |
| 1505–7 |
Riccio’s Story of Judith and David reliefs complete Bellano’s Old
Testament narrative series for the choir
of the Basilica del Santo, Padua. |
| 1507–16 |
Works on the Paschal Candelabrum,
his greatest bronze monument, for the
center of the Santo’s choir. The War
of the League of Cambrai (1508–16)
slows progress. |
| 1513 |
Completes the Moses/Zeus Ammon,
exhibited here, for a font in the
monastery of Santa Giustina, Padua. |
| 1516 |
The Paschal Candelabrum is inaugurated
on January 6, the Feast of the
Epiphany. |
| c. 1516–21 |
Works on the tomb for the scholars
Girolamo and Marcantonio Della
Torre at San Fermo Maggiore, Verona.
(The Triumph of Humanist Virtue relief from this tomb is exhibited here.) |
| 1520 |
Installs the life-size terracotta
Enthroned Madonna and Child at the
Scuola del Santo, Padua. |
| 1521–24 |
Works on Antonio Trombetta’s tomb
and bronze portrait bust in the Santo. |
| 1520s |
Chronicler Marcantonio Michiel
records Riccio’s public works and a
(lost) bronze statuette of a male nude
carrying a vessel. |
| 1530 |
Finishes the Lamentation, a life-size
terracotta group, for San Canziano,
Padua. |
| 1532 |
Dies in July. His tomb is erected in San
Giovanni di Verdara, Padua. |
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