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Piccolomini Altarpiece

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Location
  
Siena Cathedral

Media
  
Carrara marble

Created
  
1504

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Artists
  
Michelangelo, Andrea Bregno

Similar
  
Michelangelo artwork, Carrara marble, Other artwork

The Piccolomini Altarpiece is an architectural and sculptural altarpiece in the left-nave of Siena Cathedral, commissioned by cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini. It was built between 1481 and 1485 by Andrea Bregno in Carrara marble, with additions in the following decades – these included four niche sculptures produced between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo of saints Peter, Augustine (later resculpted as Saint Pius), Paul and Gregory.

References

Piccolomini Altarpiece Wikipedia