Niccolò Roccatagliata
Illustration — Statue of St John the Baptist, designed by Roccatagliata. Niccolò or Nicola Roccatagliata (1593–1636) was an Italian sculptor, mainly active in Venice. Niccolò Roccatagliata was born in Genoa, he is mainly remembered for his work in the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice including bronze statuettes of St George and St Stephen (1590), as well as twenty-eight sconces in the form of putti, and two large candelabra.
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Illustration — Statue of St John the Baptist, designed by Roccatagliata. Niccolò or Nicola Roccatagliata (1593–1636) was an Italian sculptor, mainly active in Venice. Niccolò Roccatagliata was born in Genoa, he is mainly remembered for his work in the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice including bronze statuettes of St George and St Stephen (1590), as well as twenty-eight sconces in the form of putti, and two large candelabra.
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In 1633, he completed a highly emotive relief depicting an Allegory of the Redemption for the church of San Moisè in Venice.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Work by Niccolò Roccatagliata is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Museum in Warsaw, Art Institute of Chicago and Rijksmuseum.
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- 1.still on the entrance to the balustrade across from the choir of San Giorgio Maggiore
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