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Also Known As Arri Bertoia
Born March 10, 1915 • Italy
Died November 6, 1978 (aged 63) • Pennsylvania

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The Diamond chair designed by Harry Bertoia, 1952
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Milles, Carl: Europa and the Bull
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Donatello: David
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Italian sculptor
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
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Italian painter and sculptor
saltcellar of Francis I
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Nicola Pisano: Adoration of the Magi
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“Black Sun,” black tamba granite sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1960–63; in a private garden
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Diana of the Tower
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Epstein, Sir Jacob
Sir Jacob Epstein
British sculptor
Head of God the Father
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The Murder of Abel, bas-relief panel by Jacopo della Quercia, 1425–38; on the Porta Maggiore of San Petronio, Bologna, Italy.
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Leonard Baskin
American sculptor
Giacomo Manzù
Italian sculptor
Marcel Breuer
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“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
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