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Bartolommeo Bandinelli Information |
 | | Bartolommeo (or Baccio) Bandinelli (November 12, 1493 - February 7, 1560), Florentine sculptor and painter, was the son of an eminent goldsmith, and from him Bandinelli obtained the first elements of drawing. |
 | | Bandinelli had already carved the sculpture as far as the abdomen of Hercules, when in the Sack of Rome, 1527, the pope was taken prisoner in Rome. |
 | | Bandinelli boasted that he would exceed the original, and when he was finished, after a hiatus during the pontificate of Adrian VI, the Medici Pope Clement VII could not bear to part witrh it, sent some antiquities to the King of France, and sent Baccio's Laocoon to Florence. |
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