- Lazzaro Morelli
Lazzaro Morelli (
30 October ,1608 - 1690) was an Italian sculptor of theBaroque period. Born inAscoli Piceno , the son of the Florentine sculptorFulgenzio Morelli , who also trained Lazzaro's cousin, the artistGiuseppe Giosafatti . Lazzaro is best known for having worked in the studio ofGianlorenzo Bernini , and participating in the sculpting of one of the "angel with the whip" (scourge) of thePonte Sant'Angelo inRome . He also sculpted the statue of "Benignity", for the St. Peter's tomb monument forClement X . The tomb was designed byMattia de' Rossi (1684) and the other sculptors wereErcole Ferrata (pope) andGiuseppe Mazzuoli ("Clemency"). He also completed some of the saints in the roof-line of the external colonnades ofSt. Peter's Basilica . [ [http://www.stpetersbasilica.org/Exterior/Colonnades/Saints-Colonnades.htm| Statues of the Colonnade.] ] He also participated in the decoration of "San Pietro Martire" in Ascoli Piceno. Also of interest is the "aedicule" outside the church of San Francesco, used by the condemned led to execution. [ [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicola_di_Lazzaro_Morelli| Italian wikipedia entry for the aedicule.] ]Notes
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* [http://www.comune.ascolipiceno.it/sito_inglese/citta/barocco.htm| City of Ascoli Piceno website.]
*New Attributions in St. Peter's: The Spandrel Figures in the Nave, Robert Enggass. The Art Bulletin, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 1978), pp. 96-108. doi:10.2307/3049748.
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