known venture outside Mantua. He died at Gazzuolo in 1528. An exhibition of L'Antico's work was held at the Frick Collection, New York, in 2012. Representative works Medallions of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga and of Antonia del Balzo his wife, 1479, National Gallery, Washington. Gonzaga Vase, 1481, Galleria Estense, Modena. Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, part-gilded bronze medallion, of one of a series celebrating Hercules, probably to flatter Ercole d'Este (died 1505), Bargello Museum, Florence. Five more from the sequence are in Vienna, and two at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Victoria and Albert Museum, c. 1484-1490, Meleager, bronze, part-gilded. The complementary figure of the boar is missing. Eros, 1490, if, as has been supposed, it was made as a wedding gift to Isabella d'Este, Bargello Museum, Florence. Apollo Belvedere, bronze, part-gilded, Justus Liebighaus, Frankfurt. The Apollo Belvedere was moved to the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican in 1509. Before that time it was in the personal collection of Pope Julius II, where L'Antico may have had access to it. There are other examples of this sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and in the Ca' d'Oro, Venice. Venus Felix c. 1495, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. A reinterpretation rather than a reproduction. Hercules, 1496, bronze, silver inlays, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Hercules, probably 1499, bronze part-gilded, silver inlays, Frick Museum, New York. Seated Paris, c. 1500, Metropolitan Museum. Mercury, c.1500-1511, Bargello Museum, Florence. Cupid, firing an arrow, c. 1519, Rijksmuseum. Bust of a Young Man, c. 1520, J. Paul Getty Museum. Venus Caritas, c. 1520-1523, bronze with gilding and silver inlay, Walters Art Museum. Young Hercules, Louvre Museum. Further reading Manfred Leithe-Jasper, 1986. Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (London: Scala Publications) General background to Renaissance bronzes. References External links Web Gallery of Art: L'Antico Gazzuolo L'Antico sculpture of a seated nymph 1460s births 1528 deaths Artists from the Province of Mantua Renaissance sculptors 15th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 16th-century Italian sculptors People from Gazzuolo Sculptors from Lombardy