Pietro Urbano was an Italian artist of the

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period. He was born in

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, and was a pupil of

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

as a sculptor. He was dismissed from Michelangelo's service for allegedly defacing the master's

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, rather than completing the finer details onsite at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, as he had been charged. According to Michelangelo's confidant

Sebastiano del Piombo Sebastiano del Piombo (; c. 1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerism, Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian School (art), Venetian ...

, "all he has worked on is completely disfigured." Urbano subsequently absconded with pilfered jewelry and clothing, fleeing to Rome with the stolen goods in order to gamble and engage prostitutes. In the Roman

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, he sculpted the funeral monument of Cecchino Brachi, another pupil of Michelangelo, dead at the age of sixteen.

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* People from Pistoia 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-stub