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Lorenzo di Pietro

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lorenzo di Pietro , c.1412-1480, Sienese painter, sculptor, and goldsmith, called Il Vecchietta. He painted a group of frescoes and a relic press in the hospital at Siena; four ceilings in the Baptistery of San Giovanni at Siena; an altarpiece, The Assumption of the Virgin, his masterpiece (cathedral, Pienza); a triptych, Madonna with Saints (Uffizi); St. Catherine and the Virgin of Mercy, fragments of frescoes (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena); and a Madonna (Siena). Lorenzo was one of the most important painters of the later Sienese school. He also executed many sculptures, including... Read more
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo (1598–1680). Sculptor, architect...work on his gigantic baldacchino in San Pietro, Rome, a tour-de-force with four barley-sug...Europe. Also elliptical was his Piazza di San Pietro, with the Ancient Egyptian obelisk (re-e... Read more
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
...Italian baroque . After receiving early training from his father, Pietro (1562-1629), an accomplished Florentine sculptor, Bernini worked...Between 1658 and 1670 Bernini designed three churches: San Tomaso di Villanova at Castelgandolfo, Santa Maria dell'Assunzione at Ariccia... Read more

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