Italian Renaissance sculptor to the Kings and Queens of England (that's his bust of King Henry VII above)
Arguably the greatest artist who ever lived, part of the Holy Trinity of Italian Renaissance masters
The baroque master of chiaroscuro, turning the dance of darkness and light into story and character
One of the greatest painters of the early Renaissance was nothing if not a man of his times
There is no place in the United Kingdom that is more than 113km (70 miles) from the sea. The most landlocked place in all of Britain? Coton in the Elms, an English village of around 900 souls in Derbyshire, just NE of Birmingham.