Giovanni di Stefano (1443 – c. 1506) was an

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, bronze-caster, and engineer. Baptized on 20 June 1443, he was the son of

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. Some of his surviving works include two angels in bronze at

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, which he created in 1489 in collaboration with

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(who also worked with

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on another pair of bronze angels in the same cathedral), the marble altar of St. Caterina's chapel in S. Domenico, Siena (1469), and the effigy of Cardinal

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in the church of

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(previously thought to have been created by

Vecchietta Lorenzo di Pietro (1410 – June 6, 1480), known as Vecchietta, was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, ...

), which he created circa 1485. The latter is now preserved in the

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. Some scholars believe the bas relief of St. John the Evangelist in Siena Cathedral to also be the work of di Stefano, but the evidence for this is disputed.

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