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Riccio, the son of a goldsmith, first trained in his father’s shop in Padua and then studied sculpture with Bartolomeo Bellano.  Riccio’s twelve-foot-high Paschal Candlestick in the Basilica of S. Antonio, Padua, is considered his masterpiece, but he also executed other works in Padua and major bronzes for churches in Venice and Verona.  His fame was so great both in his day and after his death that countless small bronzes were made in his manner, often derived from the myriad figures on the Candlestick.
Source: Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

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