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(b Verona, before 1440; d 1499 or after). Italian sculptor, architect and engineer. He seems to have shown his skill as a sculptor in Verona by the 1460s, since the Protonotary Apostolic, Gregorio Correr (d 1464), praised him, together with Andrea Mantegna, in two epigrams and a poem. Also in the 1460s he probably visited Padua, where he could have studied Donatello’s sculptures and Mantegna’s frescoes in the Ovetari Chapel in the Eremitani. The Antonio Rizzo whom documents mention as being responsible for various works (1465–7) at the Certosa di Pavia was probably a different person. Markham Schulz’s suggestion (1983), based on stylistic analysis, that Rizzo worked in Florence is controversial. There is evidence that in 1465 Rizzo was in Venice, where Doge Cristoforo Moro gave him a prestigious commission to carve three marble altars (completed 1469) in S Marco. The altars of St James and St Paul have survived virtually unchanged, but that of St Clement was altered in the 16th century. The slender proportions of the tabernacles decorated with ...