sentences:  He was trained in Florence, where Antonio Rossellino and Mino da Fiesole influenced his mature style.He is known to have sculpted statues of Adam, Eve, Abraham, Saints Zacchariah and Elizabeth, and others for the chapel of San Giovanni Battista in Genoa Cathedral.He is mentioned with the name of "Matteo Civitali" by Vasari in his biography of Jacopo della Quercia, and appears to have taken up the art of sculpture at the age of 40 years, after years of practicing as a "barber" (surgeon).