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Italian male sculptors

  • Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on the 15th of April 1452 near the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. His father, a notary named Ser Piero, and his mother, a…
  • MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni arrived in the world on the 6th of March 1475 within the small town of Caprese.
  • Bartolommeo BerrecciBartolomeo Berrecci was born in 1480 within the town of Pontassieve, Italy. His first lessons came from his father who practiced architecture himself.
  • Arnolfo di CambioColle Val d'Elsa in Tuscany was the birthplace of a man who would reshape Italian art. He began his career as a lead assistant to Nicola Pisano around 1265.
  • Giovanni DalmataIoannes Stephani Duknovich de Tragurio entered the world around 1440 in Vinišće, a small village now part of Marina. His father Stjepan Duknović worked as a…
  • 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…
  • Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti was born on the 14th of February 1404 in Genoa. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, was a wealthy Florentine who had been exiled…
  • 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…
  • Nicola PisanoThe archives of the Cathedral of Siena record a son named Petrus de Apulia, yet they offer no exact year for Nicola Pisano's arrival into the world.
  • Silvio GazzanigaSilvio Gazzaniga entered the world on the 23rd of January 1921 within the bustling streets of Milan. He pursued his education in the art schools located in…
  • Cesare MaccariCesare Maccari entered the world on the 9th of May 1840 within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. His hometown was Siena, a city that would shape his early artistic…
  • 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.