Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, ca. (1525–1580)

• Was a sixteenth-century sculptor of Dutch origin.
• He served as a pupil of Benvenuto Cellini in Florence.
• Willem is documented at the court of François I by his late teens.
• He is documented in the Florentine workshop of Cellini in 1549-50.
• He was among the sculptors who worked on the marble base for Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Florence.
• In about 1549 Guglielmo restored an antique fragmentary torso as a Ganymede for Cosimo I de' Medici.

• In Rome he worked under the direction of Guglielmo della Porta, restoring antiquities for the Cortile del Belvedere and other Vatican projects.

• On his return to Florence in 1562, Guglielmo reminded Cosimo of his former work on the Ganymede.

• Giorgio Vasari records a writing cabinet adorned with bronze replicas of the antique Dioscuri, the Apollo Belvedere, the Farnese Hercules and the Venus de' Medici and at least sixteen other statuettes by Fiammingo.

• Anthony Radcliffe has pointed out, van Tetrode was back in Delft by 1566-67; there in 1568 he signed a contract for the new high altar in the Oude Kerk, which he finished in 1573.

• An engraving was published by Hendrick Goltzius of a design for a silver salver by Tetrode.

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