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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Claus Sluter
Dutch sculptor
Three Graces, marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, 1812–16.
Antonio Canova, marchese d’Ischia
Italian sculptor
Giovanni Pisano: marble pulpit
Giovanni Pisano
Italian sculptor
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor
Jean Mone
French 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
The Murder of Abel, bas-relief panel by Jacopo della Quercia, 1425–38; on the Porta Maggiore of San Petronio, Bologna, Italy.
Jacopo della Quercia
Italian sculptor
Luca della Robbia
Florentine sculptor
tomb of Cardinal de Richelieu
François Girardon
French sculptor
Germain Pilon
French sculptor
Berruguete, Alonso
Alonso Berruguete
Spanish sculptor
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: tomb of Maurice, comte de Saxe
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
French sculptor
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Arnolfo di Cambio, statue by Luigi Pampaloni, 1830; near the Duomo, Florence.
Arnolfo di Cambio
Italian sculptor and architect
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 Sansovino
Italian architect
Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus
Tilman Riemenschneider
German sculptor
Stone, Nicholas, Sr.; and Stone, Nicholas, Jr.
Nicholas Stone, Sr.
English sculptor
Andronicos, Manolis
Manolis Andronicos
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