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1500, Nov 31519-1560s1571, Feb 13
an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism. Besides his works in gold and silver, Cellini executed sculptures of a grander scale.
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Salamander: A lizard-like animal, supposedly immune to fire. (Benvenuto Cellini, 1500-1571, recorded that when he was a...
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Benvenuto Cellini1500, Nov 31519
 
15691571, Feb 13
Tilman Riemenschneider1460 ca1483
 
15251531, Jul 7
 a German sculptor and woodcarver, one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transit...
Giovanni della Robbia14691501
 
15291529
 an Italian Renaissance ceramic artist. He was the son of Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525), brother...
Lorenzo di Credi1459 ca1493
 
15391537, Jan 12
 an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor. He first influenced Leonardo da Vinci and then was g...
Guglielmo Bergamasco1485 ca1519
 
15391550
 an Italian architect and sculptor of the Renaissance period. He designed and helped build various...
Gaudenzio Ferrari1471 ca1510
 
15421546, Jan 11
 a Northern Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance, one of the leading representatives of...
Jean Juste14851515
 
15491549
 a French sculptor. At his school Jean Juste became imbued with the realism of Flanders, slightly ...
Niccolo Tribolo1500 ca1517
 
15501550, Sep 7
 an Italian Mannerist sculptor in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici in his natal city of Florence...
Baccio Bandinelli1493, Oct 171520
 
 
15561560, Feb 7
 a Renaissance Italian sculptor, draughtsman and painter. Bandinelli's lifelong obsession with Mic...
Jean Goujon1510 ca1541
 
 
15621565 ca
 a French Renaissance sculptor and architect. His most famous works are the sculptural decorations...
Michelangelo1475, Mar 61490
 
15641564, Feb 18
 an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted a...
Ligier Richier1500 ca1530
 
 
15671567
 a French sculptor active in Saint-Mihiel, who primarily worked in the churches of his native Sain...
Pierre Bontemps1505 ca1540
 
 
15681568
 a French sculptor known for his funeral monuments; he was, with Germain Pilon, one of the pre-emi...
Daniele da Volterra1509 ca1530
 
15691566, Apr 4
 an Italian painter mannerist and sculptor, best remembered for his association with the late Mich...
Jean Bullant15151537
 
15741578, Oct 13
 a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of ...
Francesco Primaticcio1504, Apr 301530
 
15791570
 an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France. Toge...
Juan de Juni1507 ca1533
 
15791577
 a French–Spanish sculptor, who also worked as a painter and architect. He was born in Joigny, F...
Bartolomeo Ammanati15111540
 
15791592
 an Italian architect and sculptor. He was more distinguished in architecture than in sculpture. L...
Diego de Pesquera15401560
 
15811581
 a 16th-century Spanish sculptor of the Sevillian and Granadan schools. Records show he was active...
Germain Pilon1525 ca1540
 
15901590, Feb 3
 a French Renaissance sculptor. His works - with their realism and theatrical emotion - show the i...
Pellegrino Tibaldi15271542
 
15921592/1596
 an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.who spread the style of Italian Manne...
Giambologna15291553
 
16081608, Aug 13
 a Flemish sculptor, celebrated for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Manner...
Barthelemy Prieur1536 ca1564
 
16091616
 a French sculptor. In 1585 he created the monument to Christophe de Thou, now preserved in the L...
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