Florentine sculptor who carried over into the second half of the 15th century many of the motifs and stylistic features characteristic of the first half. His marble tomb designs are variants on patterns established by his master, Antonio Rossellino; his pictorial relief style, which found its most eloquent expression in a pulpit executed between 1472 and 1475 in Santa Croce, Florence, belongs to the narrative tradition associated with Ghiberti and Donatello. Perhaps his most memorable achievement lay not in his figures or reliefs but in the decorative settings in which they were placed.
Benedetto's other works include two outstanding portrait busts of Pietro Mellini (Bargello, Florence) and Filippo Strozzi (Louvre, Paris).

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