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1500-1572. Italian goldsmith and sculptor. He connects the generation of Michelangelo with the taste and tendencies of later times, being the last to represent the power and simplicity of the early 16th century, and the first to show the tendency to elongated and raff iné forms which ruled the French and Italian art after 1550. The Perseus in Florence is his leading work. In the Louvre is his Nymph of Fontainebleau. His life-size silver statues made for Francis I. have disappeared. As goldsmith and medalist he executed many beautiful works. His Autobiography is our best original document for his times; it was tr. into German by Goethe, and into English by Roscoe 1822, and Symonds 1887.