Ignazio Collino was an Italian

Italy

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 sculptor, active in the late-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, mainly in the region of the Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

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Along with his brother, Filippo Collino (1737–1801), Ignazio worked in a restrained formal style, intermediate between Baroque and Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

. A royal subsidy provided by Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy

Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel III was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death.-Biography:...

 enabled him to apprentice in sculpture with François Ladatte and in drawing with Claudio Francesco Beaumont

Claudio Francesco Beaumont

Cavaliere Claudio Francesco Beaumont, was born in Turin. After studying some time in his native city, he went to Rome, and applied himself to copying the works of Raphael, the Carracci, and Guido Reni. He appears to have had little respect for the Roman painters of his time, except Trevisani,...

. He was sent to Rome in 1754 to work with fellow-Lombard Giovanni Battista Maini

Giovanni Battista Maini

Giovanni Battista Maini was an Italian sculptor of the Late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.He was born in Cassano Magnago in Lombardy, and died in Rome. He may have had contacts with Foggini in Florence. By 1708, he had moved to Rome where he joined the large studio of Camillo Rusconi,...

, who was a trainee of Camillo Rusconi

Camillo Rusconi

Camillo Rusconi was an Italian sculptor of the late Baroque in Rome. His style displays both features of Baroque and Neoclassicism. He has been described as a Carlo Maratta in marble.-Biography:...

. In Rome, he copied many antique originals. In 1767, they relocated back to Turin to run the school of sculpture. He provided much sculpture for royal tombs of the House of Savoy at the Basilica of Superga

Basilica of Superga

The Basilica of Superga is a church in the vicinity of Turin.It was built from 1717 to 1731 for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy by Filippo Juvarra, at the top of the hill of Superga, to fulfill a vow the duke had made during the Battle of Turin...

, including the Monument for Carlo Emanuele III (1773). Giovanni Battista Bernero

Giovanni Battista Bernero

Giovanni Battista Bernero was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor who worked, mainly in Piedmont, in a formalized restrained style, intermediate between baroque and Neoclassicism.He was born in Cavallerleone in Piedmont...

was one of his pupils.

External links

• Web Gallery of Art biography