biography
pronunciation:
[torijiahnoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1472–1528)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Florence, NC Italy. He studied alongside Michelangelo at the Academy of Lorenzo de' Medici. After working in Bologna, Siena, Rome, and Holland, he went to England, where he introduced Italian Renaissance art. He created the tombs of Margaret Beaufort in Westminster Abbey, and of her son Henry VII and his queen. He settled in Spain and died in the prisons of the Inquisition. |
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