Andrea Sansovino executes a marble font for the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Volterra, with good reliefs of the Four Virtues and the Baptism of Christ, in a conservative style evocative of the fourteenth century, in 1502.
Sixteen-year-old Jacopo Tatti begins his training this year in Florence under Sansovino, whose surname he will eventually assume.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."
