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Italian Renaissance 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.
  • 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…
  • QuattrocentoIn the late Middle Ages, money replaced land as the primary measure of wealth across Italy. Urban centers arose in places like Florence and Venice, populated…