The makers
Artists
Lives shaped by workshops, patrons, migrations, technologies, and the stubborn intelligence of materials. Begin with a focused launch index designed to grow from verified museum data.
24 artists
Gregorio di Lorenzo
Italian sculptor (1436-1504).
Joseph Matthias Götz
German sculptor (1696–1760).
Giovanni Francesco Rustici
Italian artist (1474-1554).
Agostino Cornacchini
Italian artist (1686-1754).
Martin Gottlieb Klauer
German sculptor.
Rasmus Harboe
Danish sculptor (1868-1952).
Aristide Maillol
Sculptor from France (1861–1944).
Grinling Gibbons
Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver (1648-1721).
Filippo Parodi
Italian artist (1630-1702).
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor (1598–1654).
Lorenzo Bartolini
Italian sculptor (1777-1850).
Benedetto Buglioni
Italian sculptor (1460-1521).
Ignaz Günther
German sculptor and woodcarver (1725–1775).
Peter Flötner
German sculptor (1485-1546).
Séraphin Soudbinine
Russian sculptor and ceramist (1867-1944).
Charles Henri Joseph Cordier
French sculptor (1827–1905).
Pedro De Mena
Spanish artist (1628–1688).
Giovanni della Robbia
Italian sculptor (1469–1529).
Adam Lenckhardt
German sculptor (1610–1661).
Pierre Puget
French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (1620–1694).
Donatello
A restless inventor who returned sculpture to the streets, bodies, and civic life of Renaissance Florence.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The great theatrical intelligence of Roman Baroque sculpture, capable of making marble breathe, twist, and speak.
Edmonia Lewis
The first Black and Indigenous American sculptor to achieve sustained international recognition.
Auguste Rodin
A radical modeler of bodies and surfaces whose fragments, repetitions, and visible process remade modern sculpture.