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Born October 12, 1742 • Germany
Died June 13, 1825 (aged 82) • Nymphenburg • Germany
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Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
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
Laurana, Francesco: A Princess of the House of Aragon
Francesco Laurana
Italian sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French 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
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
German sculptor
Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus
Tilman Riemenschneider
German sculptor
Harlequin, Meissen hard-paste porcelain figure from the commedia dell'arte modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, c. 1738; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Johann Joachim Kändler
German sculptor
“The Princesses Luise and Friederike,” marble sculpture by Gottfried Schadow, 1797; in the National-Galerie, Berlin
Gottfried Schadow
German sculptor
Kraft, self-portrait (detail from the “Shrine of the Sacrament”), sandstone, begun 1493; in the Church of Sankt Lorenz, Nürnberg, Ger.
Adam Kraft
German sculptor
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Reinhold Begas
German sculptor
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Giovanni Battista Foggini
Italian sculptor
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Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
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James Earle Fraser
American sculptor
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Enoch Wood
English potter
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist

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