Gaspare Guercio
Illustration — Porta Nuova beside Palazzo dei Normanni. • Illustration — Porta Nuova gate, Palermo • Illustration — The Trapani Madonna. Gaspare Guercio (1611 - 1670/1679) was an Italian artist, nicknamed 'Guercio' and a major proponent of the Sicilian Baroque. He was principally a sculptor but also a designer of decorative schemes for architectural projects.
Gaspare Guercio
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- Born
- 1611 · Palermo.
- Died
- 1679 · Palermo.
- Occupation
- sculptor · architect
- Movements
- Baroque
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Illustration — Porta Nuova beside Palazzo dei Normanni. • Illustration — Porta Nuova gate, Palermo • Illustration — The Trapani Madonna. Gaspare Guercio (1611 - 1670/1679) was an Italian artist, nicknamed 'Guercio' and a major proponent of the Sicilian Baroque. He was principally a sculptor but also a designer of decorative schemes for architectural projects.
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Gaspare Guercio (1611–1679) was an architect and sculptor. The architect was born and died in Palermo. Gaspare Guercio was associated with Baroque.
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He collaborated with his pupil Gaspare Serpotta, father of the more famous Giacomo Serpotta.
Born in Palermo, he was trained in sculpture by his father, a reputed 'marmoraio' and sculptor in his own right.
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• St George Saving a Maiden, marble medallion, 1660, facade of Caccamo Cathedral. • Altarpiece, marble, Santa Maria Assunta Basilica, Randazzo • Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary as a Child, marble sculptural group, attributed, Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Burgio.
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1611
Gaspare Guercio born at Palermo.
1679
Gaspare Guercio died at Palermo.
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- 1.in lang it Francesco Abbate, Storia dell'arte nell'Italia meridionale, Volume 4, 2002, pag. 121-122, ISBN 8879897209
- 2.Cita Gaspare Palermo Volume quarto pp. 258 .
- 3.Cita Gaspare Palermo Volume quarto pp. 272 .
- 4.Pagina 5, Gaspare Palermo, "Guida istruttiva per potersi conoscere ... tutte le magnificenze ... della Città di Palermo" https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=u1sUAAAAQAAJ, vol. 3, Palermo, Reale Stamperia, 1816.
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