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Quattrocentro Adriatico: Fifteenth-Century Art of the Adriatic Rim.(Review)
; ...Florentine workmen, such as Maso di Bartolommeo, Michele di Giovanni, and on the elusive...drawn to the area as Niccolo di Giovanni and Agostino di Duccio we find, of course, the...the campaign was led by Agostino di Duccio) would account for the many...
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Forget TV, There is more to be learned from the Michelangelos in London than from the BBC's trivialising documentary.
; ...beginnings of a giant figure by a minor sculptor, Agostino di Duccio - an aborted commission - perhaps committed Michelangelo...would probably have meant as much (or as little) had Agostino di Duccio finished his David 40 years before and do not explain...
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Enfrenta el 'David' un nuevo Goliat.(Cultura)
; ...Fantiscritti, cerca de Carrara, que debido a sus numerosos defectos ya había sido rechazado por los artistas Agostino di Duccio y Antonio Rosellino. Hace un año, la intervención del David despertó una polémica sobre la conservaci...
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Marble hero, feet of clay This book about Michelangelo's 'David' does not match up to the scale of its subject, finds Michael Prodger
; ...had already been blocked out some 40 years before Michelangelo took a chisel to it by an artisan sculptor called Agostino di Duccio. His statue was intended to stand high up on the outside of Florence's Duomo and Michelangelo's figure was meant...
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Chemical David When Agnese Parronchi was entrusted with Michelangelo's David, she just wanted to rub him gently all over. But her bosses disagreed. Alasdair Palmer meets the woman who walked out on the perfect man
; ...courtyard of the Opera del Duomo for nearly 40 years before Michelangelo started work on it. Two sculptors before him - Agostino di Duccio and Antonio Rossellino - had made attempts at carving it; both had given up, possibly partly because of the low quality...
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