Depends what you mean by 450yr old "pop culture". But there's at least one instance when he did refer directly to a "contemporary" artist:

Third Gentleman

No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue,

which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many

years in doing and now newly performed by that rare

Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself

eternity and could put breath into his work, would

beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her

ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that

they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of

answer: thither with all greediness of affection

are they gone, and there they intend to sup.

(Winter's Tale)

Giulio Romano died in 1546, but was certainly a real person the audience would have recognized. Although he wasn't known for sculpture.