Giovanni Angelo Finali
Giovanni Angelo Finali (1709–1772) was an Italian sculptor, active in Northern Italy. He was born in Valsolda in Lombardy, but left works in Reggio Emilia and Verona. He trained with a sculptor active in the court at Dresden.
Giovanni Angelo Finali
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- Born
- 1709 · Valsolda.
- Died
- 1772 · Wrocław.
- Occupation
- sculptor
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Giovanni Angelo Finali (1709–1772) was an Italian sculptor, active in Northern Italy. He was born in Valsolda in Lombardy, but left works in Reggio Emilia and Verona. He trained with a sculptor active in the court at Dresden.
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He completed the statuary of the Mausoleum of Sebastiano and Vincenzo Pisani in the church of Sant'Anastasia in Verona. He also completed the Statue of Scipione Maffei (1756) for the Domus Nova or Palazzo dei Giudici in Verona. He also completed the statues of the Madonna del Rosario and St Dominic for the Dominican Convent of Verona, later Royal Lyceum. He also completed marble angels of the altar of the Oratorio dei Filippini; Saints Peter and Paul for the facade of the church of San Paolo in Campo Marzio. He also completed some of the statuary outside the Cathedral of Mantua. He created statues for the church of Chiesa del Cristo, Reggio Emilia. He died in Breslau. Among his pupils was Giovanni Paolo Devere.
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded as human. Institutional cataloguing adds that giovanni Angelo Finali is recorded with the occupation sculptor. The register further records that giovanni Angelo Finali is recorded with the gender male. Born in Valsolda. Institutional cataloguing adds that giovanni Angelo Finali died in Wrocław.
![500px provided description: Piazza dei Signori - Verona [#Piazza dei Signori,#Dante Alighieri,#Scipione Maffei]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Dante_Alighieri_E_Scipione_Maffei_%2842181666%29.jpeg/1280px-Dante_Alighieri_E_Scipione_Maffei_%2842181666%29.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
500px provided description: Piazza dei Signori - Verona [#Piazza dei Signori,#Dante Alighieri,#Scipione Maffei]
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Scipione Maffei, the subject of the statue, spent his life mainly in Verona, where he was born and died (1st June 1675 - 12th February 1755). He was a historian, a playwright and an intellectual. He studied in the Jesuit colleges of Parma and Rome, then he served in the Bavarian Army. During his stay in Rome, he was in contact with important intellectual circles which influenced his classical edu
Dimitris Kamaras from Athens, Greece · Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Palazzo Domus Nova, Piazza dei Signori, Verona
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