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Born 1535 • Paris • France
Died February 3, 1590 (aged 55) • Paris • France

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Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
Augustin Pajou
French sculptor
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
saltcellar of Francis I
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian artist
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor
The Christ Child (?), marble bust by Desiderio da Settignano, c. 1460; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 30.5 × 26.5 × 16.3 cm.
Desiderio da Settignano
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
Manship, Paul
Paul Manship
American sculptor
Conrat Meit
German sculptor
Pompeo Leoni
Italian sculptor
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: tomb of Maurice, comte de Saxe
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
French sculptor
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
French sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor
Lachaise, Gaston: Head of a Woman
Gaston Lachaise
French-American 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
French sculptor
Guillaume Coustou
French sculptor
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Lysippus
Greek sculptor

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