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ROSSI, Angelo de' - b. 1671 Genova, d. 1715 Roma - WGA

ROSSI, Angelo de'

(b. 1671 Genova, d. 1715 Roma)

Italian sculptor. In his native Genoa he was apprenticed to Filippo Parodi in 1680; Parodi’s influence is clear in his first pre-1689 work, a Small Satyr in marble. Nearly unavoidably, he was also influenced by the work of Pierre Puget. He went to Rome in 1688, remaining there until his death; a 1692 relief of Three Men in the Fiery Furnace won first prize in all three sculpture classes at the Accademia di San Luca.

In 1699, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni appointed de’ Rossi court sculptor in the Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome, and put him in charge of making the Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII, Ottoboni’s granduncle, in St. Peter’s Basilica (in parts finished after de’ Rossi’s death). Another important work is the apostle Saint James the Less in St. John Lateran, Rome (1705-11). The commemorative Bust of Arcangelo Corelli (died 1713) in the Protomoteca Capitolina of the Palazzo del Senatore of the Campidoglio, Rome, is also attributed to de’ Rossi.

De’ Rossi was said to be close friends with Pierre Le Gros. With a promising career ahead, Angelo de’ Rossi died prematurely in Rome.

St. James the Less
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St. James the Less

This statue is part of a series of twelve monumental marble statues. This series was the largest sculptural task in Rome during the early eighteenth century. These statues provide an opportunity of assessing the prevalent stylistic tendency between 1700 and 1715, and the distribution of commissions is, at the same time, a good yardstick for measuring the reputation of contemporary sculptors. Rusconi executed four figures, Legros and Monnot to statues of each, and only one was assigned to the following: Ottoni, Mazzuoli, Angelo de’ Rossi, and Francesco Moratti.

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St. James the Less
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St. James the Less

This statue is part of a series of twelve monumental marble statues. This series was the largest sculptural task in Rome during the early eighteenth century. These statues provide an opportunity of assessing the prevalent stylistic tendency between 1700 and 1715, and the distribution of commissions is, at the same time, a good yardstick for measuring the reputation of contemporary sculptors. Rusconi executed four figures, Legros and Monnot to statues of each, and only one was assigned to the following: Ottoni, Mazzuoli, Angelo de’ Rossi, and Francesco Moratti.

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