He was the son of a goldsmith and became a student of the sculptor Donatello, with whom he worked on many projects, including in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua.
[1] Bartolomeo Bellano’s earliest documented works are four terracotta relief sculptures of boys, which were commissioned about 1460.
He created a statue of Pope Paul II in Perugia in 1467.
Riccio imitated Bellano's Europa and the Bull sculpture.
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