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Agostino (di Antonio) di Duccio
(b Florence, 1418; d ?Perugia, after 1481). Italian sculptor and architect. His father, Antonio di Duccio, a weaver, reported in his catasto (land registry declaration) of 1427 that Agostino was eight years old. On his father’s death, the young Agostino enrolled in the company of the mercenary Giovanni da Tolentino, with whom he was serving in 1433. He may be the apprentice named Agostino who was working on the external pulpit for Prato Cathedral on 14 May 1437; this would suggest that he trained in the circle of Michelozzo and Donatello. What may be his earliest known work, datable c. 1440 (Rosenauer, 1977), is a marble statue of the Virgin and Child (Florence, S Maria del Carmine), influenced by Michelozzo.
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