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Born June 20, 1930 • Poland
Died April 20, 2017 or April 21, 2017 • Warsaw • Poland

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Italian artist
Francesco da Sangallo
Italian sculptor
Nesiotes
Greek sculptor
Hermon A. MacNeil
American sculptor
Piero del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Italian sculptor
Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
François-Gaspard-Balthasar Adam
French sculptor
Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
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Christo
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Enoch Wood
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James Earle Fraser
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