Angelo de Rossi was an Italian

Italy

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 sculptor. Born in Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

, he was apprenticed to Filippo Parodi

Filippo Parodi

Filippo Parodi was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, "Genoa's first and greatest native Baroque sculptor".-Biography:...

 in 1680; Parodi's influence is clear in his first pre-1689 work, a Small Satyr in marble. He went to Rome in 1688, remaining there until his death; a 1692 relief

Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is thus to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane...

 of Three Men in the Fiery Furnace won first prize in all three sculpture classes at the Accademia di San Luca

Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca, was founded in 1577 as an association of artists in Rome, under the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists", which included painters, sculptors and architects, above that of mere craftsmen. Other founders included Girolamo...

. His later work reveals the influence of his native Genoa, as well as that of Pierre Puget.

Rossi died in Rome.