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Algardi, Alessandro 1598-1654
Italian sculptor

He was born in Bologna, but worked in Rome from 1625, superseding Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the papal court. His chief work is a colossal Baroque relief, in St Peter's, Rome, of Pope Leo I restraining Attila from marching on Rome (1650).