Lorenzetto

He is profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (or, in English, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects).

According to Vasari, as a young sculptor Lorenzetto completed the tomb of Cardinal Niccolò Forteguerri, begun by Andrea Verrocchio in 1477, in San Jacopo at Pistoia.

With assistance of the young sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo, and using designs by Raphael (according to Vasari), Lorenzetto created a statue of Elijah, living by the grace of God in the desert, and a nude Jonah delivered from the belly of the whale as a symbol of the resurrection from the dead.

By the time he worked on the tombs of the Medici popes (Clement VII and Leo X) in Santa Maria sopra Minerva (c. 1536) he apparently contented himself with a subordinate role, the primary statuary having been entrusted to Baccio Bandinelli.

[1] In his later years, Lorenzetto also assisted Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as an architect and surveyor for the never-ending work on St. Peter's Basilica under Pope Paul III.