Alessandro Algardi

Plaats: Bologna

Geboren: 1598

Dood: 1654

Biografie:

Alessandro Algardi (31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Algardi was born in Bologna, where at a young age, he was apprenticed in the...