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Born c.1374 • Siena • Italy
Died October 20, 1438 • Bologna • Italy

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The Murder of Abel, bas-relief panel by Jacopo della Quercia, 1425–38; on the Porta Maggiore of San Petronio, Bologna, Italy.
The Creation of Eve, marble relief on the central portal of the facade of San Petronio, Bologna, by Jacopo della Quercia, begun 1424.
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Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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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
Bronze self-portrait of Lorenzo Ghiberti in relief, set within ornate floral and geometric decoration on the Gates of Paradise at the Florence Baptistery.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian sculptor
Giovanni Pisano: marble pulpit
Giovanni Pisano
Italian sculptor
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
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Stringcourses on the facade of the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, begun by Benedetto da Maiano, 1489, and continued by Il Cronaca.
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Andrea Sansovino
Italian architect
Arnolfo di Cambio, statue by Luigi Pampaloni, 1830; near the Duomo, Florence.
Arnolfo di Cambio
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Laurana, Francesco: A Princess of the House of Aragon
Francesco Laurana
Italian sculptor
Francesco Di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio
Italian artist
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Pietro Bernini
Italian sculptor
tomb of Cardinal de Richelieu
François Girardon
French sculptor
Berruguete, Alonso
Alonso Berruguete
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Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus
Tilman Riemenschneider
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“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor
“St. George and the Dragon,” marble relief by Michel Colombe, 1508–09; in the Louvre, Paris
Michel Colombe
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Kraft, self-portrait (detail from the “Shrine of the Sacrament”), sandstone, begun 1493; in the Church of Sankt Lorenz, Nürnberg, Ger.
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