Stoldo Lorenzi

[1] He was born the son of Gino Lorenzi, of a family of renowned stone-carvers (scalpellini), and had a brother Antonia, at least 10 years his senior.

[2][3] He studied drawing under Michele Tosini in Florence, where Girolamo Macchietti was a fellow student, intending eventually to become a painter, [2][4] He would later apprentice to become a sculptor under Niccolò Tribolo.

[1] He was also part of a team of artists providing sculpture for the Studiolo of Francesco I at the Piazza Vecchio, and for this he made a bronze Galatea (1573) and the statuette of Amphitrite holding a nautilus and a coral branch.

[1][5] He is counted among artists responsible for the diffusion of mannerist style by subsequently doing work in Milan.

[6] In Milan, he provided some sculptures for the façade of Santa Maria presso San Celso (1573–1582).