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Acosta, Cayetano (Don)  

Spanish, 18th century, male.

Born 1710, in Seville, of Portuguese origin; died 1780, in Seville.

Sculptor.

Acosta was mostly self-taught and followed, almost to the point of caricature, the styles of Pedro Duque Cornejo, Jerónimo de Balbás and Donoso. He sculpted the statues at the entrance to the choir of the church of El Salvador in Seville. In ...

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Acquaviva, Pietro Paolo  

Italian, 19th century, male.

Active in Naples at the beginning of the 19th century.

Sculptor, modeller (porcelain).

Four bisque medallions of the face of Napoleon are attributed to Pietro Paolo Acquaviva. He made them at the royal porcelain factory. Acquaviva was one of the artists who produced the decorations upon the return of the Bourbons to Naples. He was appointed a teacher of sculpture in ...

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Acquisti, Luigi  

Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1745, in Forlì; died 1823, in Bologna.

Sculptor.

In his day, Luigi Aquisti was a much-respected artist who worked above all in Rome, Milan and Bologna (reference is made to him as being there as of 1788). While still in Rome, he was responsible for decorating the altar of the S Giuseppe Colasonzio Chapel in the church of S Pantaleone. He also produced reliefs representing scenes from Homer and from Roman history for the staircase of the Braschi Palace. In Bologna, his work includes the decoration of the S Giobbe Oratory and four major statues for the cupola of S Maria della Vita. In ...

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Acron (Son of Praton)  

5th century, male.

Active in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Born to a family originally from Selinus (Selinunte), Sicily.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Acron's name appears at Delphi on a base for two statues ( Asclepius and Hygieia?) offered by Philistion, a devotee of Asclepius. The inscription dates from before 400 BC....

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Acton, Arlo  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 11 May 1933, in Knoxville (Iowa).

Sculptor.

Arlo Acton studied at the California Institute of Arts. He exhibited in San Francisco in 1962 and was selected for the 1963 Biennale des Jeunes in Paris. He also became a teacher at the University of California in Berkeley in ...

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Acuña, Antonio de  

Spanish, 19th century, male.

Born in Puerta di Santa Maria near Cádiz.

Painter, sculptor.

Best known for two busts and an equestrian statue of King Alfonso XII of Spain, Acuña also painted picturesque characters from the world of bullfighting, hunting scenes and animal studies. His works include ...

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Acuna, Luis Alberto  

Colombian, 20th century, male.

Born 1904, in Suaita (Santander).

Painter, sculptor.

Acuna spent a period living in France, where he was a student of Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowsky, the sculptors. He began painting in the late 1920s, with still-lifes influenced by analytical cubism, sometimes bordering on abstraction. Although he adhered to the mode of muralism that came from Mexico, he simultaneously opposed all forms of academicism. As an art historian and critic, Acuna was one of the propagators of European forms of expression in Latin America. He first exhibited in ...

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Acunto, Giuseppe d'  

Italian, 17th century, male.

Active Neapolitan, active during the 17th century.

Sculptor.

A poem written by Giovanni Battista Basile in 1627 singles out for special praise one of the works by this artist-cum-jurist.

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Acutus  

Italian, 12th century, male.

Active in Pianella during the second half of the 12th century.

Sculptor.

According to an inscription, this artist made the throne in S Angelo, Pranella.

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Adam  

German, 15th century, male.

Active in Cologne at the end of the 15th century.

Sculptor, engraver (stone).

Cologne School.

In 1487 Adam, along with other master sculptors, was commissioned to plan the western part of the church of St Victor in Xanten, Germany.

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Adam  

German, 16th century, male.

Active in Sterzing (now Vitipeno, Italy) at the beginning of the 16th century.

Sculptor.

Adam sculpted the tomb of William of Wolkenstein which is dated 1523.

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Adam  

German, 16th century, male.

Active in Bremenc.1578.

Sculptor.

Adam was paid 50 thalers for the sculpting of the portal of the town hall in Bremen which was donated to the town by Duke Julius of Brunswick.

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Adam D'aubelmer  

French, 16th century, male.

Active in Troyes at the beginning of the 16th century.

Sculptor (wood).

Adam d'Aubelmer directed work on the barriers in the chancel of Troyes Cathedral in 1524 and 1525.

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Adam de Bellesmes  

Flemish, 16th century, male.

Active at the beginning of the 16th century.

Sculptor (wood).

Flemish School.

Adam de Bellesmes worked for the church of St-Riquier in Abbeville, France, in 1507.

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Adam de La Porte  

French, 14th century, male.

Sculptor.

Adam de La Porte worked at the Château d'Hesdin in Pas-de-Calais in 1305.

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Adam Le Néru, E. (Mlle)  

French, 19th century, female.

Sculptor.

In 1883, E. Adam le Néru exhibited her plaster-cast Head of a Cat and her wax Greyhound at the Paris Salon.

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Adam, Claude  

School of Lorraine, 17th century, male.

Active in Rome in the middle of the 17th century.

Born in Lorraine.

Sculptor.

Filippo Titi states that Claude Adam made a statue for the church of S Pudenziana in Rome. Baldinucci credits him with one of the four statues on the Four Rivers Fountain in the Piazza Navona....

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Adam, François  

French, 20th century, male.

Born in Paris.

Sculptor.

François Adam exhibited a bronze, The Old Woman and the Child, at the 1923 Salon d'Automne. It was later acquired by the State.

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Adam, François-Gaspard-Balthasar  

French, 18th century, male.

Born 23 May 1710, near Nancy; died 1761, in Paris.

Sculptor.

François Adam, like his brothers Lambert-Sigisbert and Nicolas-Sébastien, was a pupil of his father Jacob Sigisbert and, like them, went to Paris when young. In 1740 he was placed second in the Académie contest and in ...

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Adam, Gaspar  

Spanish, 15th century, male.

Active in Seville.

Born 15th century, in Toledo.

Sculptor.

School of Seville.

Gaspar Adam was a pupil of Jéronimo Hernandez, around 1573.