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Facts

Born c.1430 • Italy
Died January 1464 • Florence • Italy

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Desiderio da Settignano: A Little Boy
Desiderio da Settignano: The Christ Child (?)
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Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor
Stringcourses on the facade of the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, begun by Benedetto da Maiano, 1489, and continued by Il Cronaca.
Benedetto da Maiano
Italian sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
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Germain Pilon
French sculptor
Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
Augustin Pajou
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Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Laurana, Francesco: A Princess of the House of Aragon
Francesco Laurana
Italian sculptor
The tomb of the cardinal of Portugal, marble sculptural complex by Antonio Rossellino, 1461–66; in the church of S. Miniato al Monte, Florence.
Antonio Rossellino
Italian sculptor
saltcellar of Francis I
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian artist
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Leone Leoni
Italian sculptor
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Luca della Robbia
Florentine sculptor
Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side.
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: tomb of Maurice, comte de Saxe
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
French sculptor
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Hiram Powers
American sculptor
Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus
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Manship, Paul
Paul Manship
American sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor
“Monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,” white and black marble sculpture by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1761; in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London
Louis-François Roubiliac
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Guillaume Coustou
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