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Catholic sculptors

  • MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni arrived in the world on the 6th of March 1475 within the small town of Caprese.
  • Lorenzo GhibertiLorenzo Ghiberti was born in 1378 in Pelago, a small town located twenty kilometers from Florence. His parentage remains uncertain because his mother Fiore…
  • DonatelloIn January 1401, a fifteen-year-old boy named Donato stood accused in the town of Pistoia. He had struck a German man with a wooden stick and drawn blood…
  • Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi entered the world in Florence, Italy, during 1377. His father worked as a notary and civil servant named Brunellesco…
  • Gustave DoréOn the 6th of January 1832, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was born in Strasbourg. At age fifteen, he began working as a caricaturist for Le journal pour…
  • Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini was born in Florence on the 3rd of November 1500. His father Giovanni worked as a musician and built musical instruments for a living.