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    Pietro Torrigiano (24 November 1472 – July/August 1528) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, who had to flee the city after breaking Michelangelo's...
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    Tomb effigies of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, by Pietro Torrigiano, Westminster Abbey...
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    Annunciation in the church of the Servants of Lucca. The Italian artist Pietro Torrigiano made in Spain several sculptures in polychrome clay, some of them...
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    Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII of England by Pietro Torrigiano, supposedly made using his death mask...
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    paned togethers". Her portrait may have painted by Meynnart Wewyck. Pietro Torrigiano made bronze effigies of Elizabeth and Henry VII for their monument...
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    Bartolomeo Di San Marco Mariotto Albertinelli Raffaellino del Garbo Pietro Torrigiano (Torrigiano) Giuliano da Sangallo Antonio da Sangallo Raphael Guillaume...
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    altar and Henry VII's tomb were crafted by the same Italian artist, Pietro Torrigiano. The Henry VII tomb was created first, beginning in 1512. The tomb...
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    contemporary maiolica and other tin-glazed pottery. Other sculptors included Pietro Torrigiano (1472–1528), who produced statues, and in England busts of the Tudor...
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    great-great-granddaughter Mary, Queen of Scots. Her tomb was created by Pietro Torrigiano, who probably arrived in England in 1509 and received the commission...
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    Henry VII and his wife, Elizabeth of York, which was sculpted by Pietro Torrigiano (who fled to England from Italy after breaking Michaelangelo's nose...
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    sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni. When he was seventeen, another pupil, Pietro Torrigiano, struck him on the nose, causing the disfigurement that is conspicuous...
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    the Rolls in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII. The work of Pietro Torrigiano (who also made the tomb of Henry VII in Westminster Abbey), it features...
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    Tudor court included many immigrants from more advanced milieus. Pietro Torrigiano, Holbein and others were in touch with the latest movements on the...
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    old-fashioned and middle class cappucchio headgear, as a political statement. Pietro Torrigiano made a bust of Henry VII of England, probably posthumous from a death...
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    and later rival. Rowland Lockey, another apprentice of Hilliard. Pietro Torrigiano, Florentine sculptor, on the run after breaking Michelangelo's nose...
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    after many vicissitudes, is now in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. Pietro Torrigiano of Florence executed the tomb of Henry VII in Westminster Abbey. Alessandro...
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  • "Toto" had been signed on in Florence in 1519 as an assistant to Pietro Torrigiano, who in fact left England for good later that year. Toto and Penni...
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    was also the site of an assault on Michelangelo by rival sculptor Pietro Torrigiano, who resented Michelangelo's critical remarks about his draughtsmanship...
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  • Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (d. 1473) 1472 – Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor (d. 1528) 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar...
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  • Moscow Unknown Grand Prince of Moscow (co-ruler), grandson of Ivan III Pietro Torrigiano August 1528  Florence (detained by  Spain) Natural causes Italian...
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    Turisanus de Turisanis was the Latin name of Pietro Torrigiano de' Torrigiani (died c. 1320), a theoretical physician from a well-known Florentine family...
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    drew Italian artists such as Pietro Torrigiano, a classmate rival of Michelangelo in the garden of the Medici. Torrigiano executed magnificent sculptures...
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    busts, possibly by Giovanni da Maiano. (Three terracotta busts by Pietro Torrigiano owned by the Wright family in Hatfield Peverel until the 1920s were...
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    Laurana, Bust of a Child, marble with traces of paint and gilding. Pietro Torrigiano : Head of Christ as Saviour of the World, bronze. Anonymous, Ambling...
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    John Fisher as a young man by Pietro Torrigiano....
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  • Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529) November 24 – Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (d. 1528) December 10 –...
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    floor and monuments, including a Renaissance terracotta figure by Pietro Torrigiano of Dr Yonge, Master of the Rolls, who died in 1516. Foyle Special...
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  • Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529) November 24 – Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (d. 1528) December 10 –...
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    Florentine Pietro Torrigiano. But he made only the Saint Francis in the altar's upper left niche. The agreement between Todeschini and Torrigiano was broken...
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    "patrones" (pattern drawings) for Lady Margaret's tomb, to be sculpted by Pietro Torrigiano for Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. Surviving receipts from...
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