Marco d'Agrate (c. 1504 – c. 1574) was an Italian sculptor of the

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period, active mainly in

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, Italy. He was born to a family of sculptors, and collaborated with his brother Gian Francesco in a monument to Sforzino Sforza found in Basilica of Santa Maria della Steccata in

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. He also worked on the tomb of Giovanni del Conte in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in

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, and for the facade of the Certosa of Pavia. San Bartolomeo Scorticato

His best known work is the statue of ''St Bartholomew Flayed'' (1562), depicting

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, found in the transept of the

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. He signed it with a line in

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that states: ''Non me Praxiteles, sed Marc'finxit Agrat'', "I was not made by Praxiteles but by Marco d'Agrate".

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1500s births 1570s deaths Italian Renaissance sculptors 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Artists from Lombardy {{Italy-sculptor-stub