Piero di Giovanni Tedesco (died c. 1402) was a German or Flemish sculptor active in Italy. He was born before 1386.
Life
According to
Lorenzo Ghiberti, he owed his nickname 'Tedesco' to his origins in Germany or (according to others) in the
Duchy of Brabant. He is first recorded in
Florence in 1386 - there he worked on
Florence Cathedral up until 1399 and a document dated 5 September 1387 from its records shows a payment to the painter
Lorenzo di Bicci for designing a sculpture for Piero Tedesco to carve. He also worked on
Milan Cathedral and in 1402 he is recorded as working on the font in
Orvieto Cathedral.
^(in French) Louis Courajod, « Leçons professées à l'École du Louvre (1887-1896) », publiées par MM.
Henry Lemonnier et André Michel, in Les Origines de la Renaissance, Paris, Alphonse Picard et fils, Ed. Libraires des Archives Nationales et de la Société de l'École des Chartes.