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Agostino di Duccio (1418 – c. 1481) was an Italian early Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 sculptor.

Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he worked in Prato
Prato

File:Prato, Santa Maria delle Carceri.JPGFile:Palazzo pretorio 02.JPGPrato is a city in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato....
 with Donatello
Donatello

Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
 and Michelozzo
Michelozzo

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italy architect and sculpture....
, who influenced him greatly. In 1441, he was accused of stealing precious materials from a monastery in Florence and was banished from his native city as a result. The following year he continued the work on the altar of S. Geminiano for the Cathedral of Modena, a work noticeable for the influence of Michelozzo.

In 1446, he studied late Gothic sculpture in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 and met Matteo de' Pasti who called on him to execute the sculptural decoration of the Tempio Malatestiano
Tempio Malatestiano

The Tempio Malatestiano is the cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially entitled to St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction from the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti c....
 in Rimini
Rimini

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa ....
, where he stayed from 1449 and 1457.






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Agostino di Duccio (1418 – c. 1481) was an Italian early Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 sculptor.

Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he worked in Prato
Prato

File:Prato, Santa Maria delle Carceri.JPGFile:Palazzo pretorio 02.JPGPrato is a city in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato....
 with Donatello
Donatello

Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
 and Michelozzo
Michelozzo

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italy architect and sculpture....
, who influenced him greatly. In 1441, he was accused of stealing precious materials from a monastery in Florence and was banished from his native city as a result. The following year he continued the work on the altar of S. Geminiano for the Cathedral of Modena, a work noticeable for the influence of Michelozzo.

In 1446, he studied late Gothic sculpture in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 and met Matteo de' Pasti who called on him to execute the sculptural decoration of the Tempio Malatestiano
Tempio Malatestiano

The Tempio Malatestiano is the cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially entitled to St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction from the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti c....
 in Rimini
Rimini

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa ....
, where he stayed from 1449 and 1457. The decorations were supposed to be a sort of mediaeval encyclopedia, with reliefs of zodiacal and other allegorical and mythological figures.

Between 1457 and 1462 he created the marble façade of the church of S. Bernardino at Perugia
Perugia

Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city symbol is the griffin, which can be seen in the form of plaques and statues on buildings around the city....
 and the following years until 1470 he created many works especially in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, such as a Madonna d'Auvillers for Piero di Cosimo de' Medici
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici

Piero di Cosimo de' Medici , , was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance. He was the father of Lorenzo de' Medici and Giuliano di Piero de' Medici...
, now found at the Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
. In 1473 he designed the outer facade of the Porta di San Pietro
San Pietro, Perugia

San Pietro is the name of a church and an abbey in the city of Perugia , central Italy....
 in the city walls of Perugia, in a style influenced by Leone Battista Alberti
Leone Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italy author, artist, architect, poet, Catholic_priest, linguistics, philosopher, and cryptography, and general Renaissance humanist polymath....
. Other works are at Amelia and at the National Gallery of Umbria at Perugia. He died in about 1481 in Perugia.