Alessandro Vittoria

Vittoria was trained in the atelier of the architect-sculptor Jacopo Sansovino; he was a contemporary of Titian whose influence can be detected in his compositions.

The closeness of his associations in projects by architects Sansovino, Sanmicheli and Palladio, working with painters Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese[3] placed him squarely among the protagonists of the art world in late 16th-century Venice.

After one quarrel with Sansovino, he removed from Venice and worked in Vicenza, where he collaborated with Veronese on the decorations of the Villa Barbaro at Maser (1560–62) before returning.

Vittoria joined the Scuola Grande di San Marco on 24 January 1563 and the Accademia del Disegno, Florence, c. 1567.

Vittoria is known for his classicising portrait busts, a genre that scarcely existed in Venice before him,[5] and for medals as well as for his full-length figures, some of which surmount Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana.