Andrea Calamech

Born in Carrara, he became a student and studio assistant of Bartolomeo Ammannati, who was himself heavily influenced by Michelangelo.

For the first part of his life he worked as a sculptor in Tuscany, collaborating with Ammannati on the Fountain of Neptune in Florence.

[2] He founded a Florentine art school in the city along with a dynasty of artists, working in Messina with his son Francesco and various relations such as his nephew Lazzaro Calamech and his son-in-law Rinaldo Bonanno.

The only complete surviving work by him is the Mannerist 1572 bronze monument to Don John of Austria in the piazza in front of Santissima Annunziata dei Catalani church.

He also produced several fountains and statues of saints and of the Madonna and Child for churches in the city and province of Messina.