NANNI di BANCO (circa 1380/1390 - 1421); diminutive of Giovanni di Antonio di Banco; Italian sculptor. In 1405 he enrolled in the Art of the Masters of Stone and Timber to practice the sculptor's work in association with Donatello. The portrait is enclosed in a frame decorated with caryatides and atlases that hold the tools of art and an allegory of sculpture. Colored illustration on a 16th century xylographic basis; from the treaty 'Le Vite de' the most outstanding painters; sculptors and architects' by Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 - 27 June 1574); second enlarged and revised edition; Giunti; Florence 1568