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

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period, active mainly in Lombardy. 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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. Also worked on the tomb of Giovanni del Conte in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Milan, 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 Bartholomew the Apostle, found in the transept of the

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. He signed it with a line that states: ''I was not made by

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but by Marco d'Agrate'' (Non mi fece Prassitele, bensì Marco d'Agrate).

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*''The information in this article is based on that in its Italian equivalent''. 1500s births 1570s deaths Renaissance sculptors 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Artists from Lombardy {{Italy-sculptor-stub