Bernardo Schiaffino was an Italian

Italy

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 sculptor of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa

Genoa

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He was one of two sculptors in his family, along with his younger brother Francesco Maria Schiaffino

Francesco Maria Schiaffino

Francesco Maria Schiaffino was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque, mainly active in his native city of Genoa....

. He trained with Domenico Parodi. He befriended the Piola family of artists; Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola was a Genoese painter of the Baroque period. His family studio was highly prolific.-Biography:Piola was an Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer...

 provided him with some designs, and Bernardo was close friends with his brother Paolo Girolamo Piola. In his biography, it claims he died of melancholy after the death of his inseparable friend. Among his pupils was Francesco Queirolo

Francesco Queirolo

Francesco Queirolo was an Italian Genoese-born sculptor, active in Rome and Naples during the Rococo period.He trained with Giuseppe Rusconi in Rome. Here he executed the statues of St. Charles Borromeo and St...

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