Italian sculptor and architect. He trained in the Florentine workshop of Baccio Bandinelli from 1540. Between 1558 and 1559 he collaborated with Vincenzo de' Rossi in Rome on a statue for the monument to Paul IV (destroyed). Battista had returned to Florence by 1563, when he undertook a cycle of the Four Seasons (completed c. 1570; untraced) for the residence in Paris of the abate Giovambattista Guadagni (d 1591). In 1564, the year of his election to the Florentine Accademia del Disegno, he provided a figure of Painting for Michelangelo's catafalque and for Michelangelo's tomb in Santa Croce, Florence, the bust of Michelangelo and the figure of Sculpture (later transformed into Painting). His terracotta model for Sculpture (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) differs considerably from the final more complex and monumental figure (completed 1574). The sculptor Stoldo Lorenzi was his nephew. //