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Zarcello y Alcarez, Francisco
sculptor; b. 12 May 1707; d. 1781.
His father, Nicolas, also a sculptor, came from Capua (Italy) to Murcia (Spain) at the end of the seventeenth century. After making a statue for the Dominican church at Murcia, Francisco went to Rome to study. Returning to Spain, he made the statues of the Spanish kings which decorate to new palace, Madrid. He finally settled in Murcia, where he founded a school.
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