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Born October 11, 1913 • Catania • Italy
Died April 5, 1995 (aged 81) • Rome • Italy
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Italian sculptor
Three Graces, marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, 1812–16.
Antonio Canova, marchese d’Ischia
Italian sculptor
Amedeo Modigliani.
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian artist
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor
Detail from the monument of Cardinal Piero Riario by Andrea Bregno and Mino da Fiesole; in the church of Santi Apostoli, Rome, 1477.
Mino da Fiesole
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
Giovanni Dupré
Italian sculptor
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
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
“The Princesses Luise and Friederike,” marble sculpture by Gottfried Schadow, 1797; in the National-Galerie, Berlin
Gottfried Schadow
German sculptor
Reinhold Begas
German sculptor
Portrait believed to be of John Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
John Michael Rysbrack
English sculptor
Brock, Sir Thomas: Queen Victoria statue
Sir Thomas Brock
British sculptor
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist

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