Agostino di Duccio

(Italian aɡoˈstiːno dɪ ˈduttʃo)

(Biography) 1415–81, Italian sculptor, noted for his carved marble panels in the interior of the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini

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Francesco in Rimini, designed by Leon Batista Alberti and decorated by Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio with exquisite relief panels featuring classical themes.

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

The inclusion of Agostino di Duccio's limpidly linear Madonna and Child relief from the V&A reminds us that not all rilievo schiacciato looks like Donatello.

Flat but not squashed: Donatello's Ascension is the centrepiece of a rewarding exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute on low-relief carving in the early renaissance

Besides such Florentine-trained masters drawn to the area as Niccolo di Giovanni and Agostino di Duccio we find, of course, the widely traveled native son Giovanni Dalmata.