Bartolini

Bartolini, Lorenzo, was born of a humble Tuscan family in 1777. He showed as a lad great skill as a modeller, and in 1797 went to Paris, where six years later he gained the second prize of the Academy for a group of Cleobis and Bito. Napoleon now became his patron, and sent him to found a school of sculpture at Carrara. After Napoleon's fall he resided in Florence till his death in 1850. His best works are Charity, Hercules and Lichas, and Faith in God, but he produced an enormous number of portrait busts.