BANDINELLI, BARTOLOMMEO or BACCIO (1493 156o), Florentine sculptor, the son of an eminent goldsmith, who taught his son the first elements of drawing. He was early placed under Rustici, a sculptor, and a friend of Leonardo da Vinci. The ruling motive in his life seems to have been jealousy both of Benvenuto Cellini and of Michelangelo, one of whose cartoons he is said to have torn up and destroyed. Among his best works must be reckoned the bassi-rilievi in the choir of the cathedral of Florence; his copy of the Laocoon; and the figures of Christ and Nicodemus on his own tomb.