Orazio Marinali was an Italian

Italy

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 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...

 sculptor, active mainly in the Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

 or Venetian mainland.

He trained with Josse de Corte

Josse de Corte

Josse de Corte was a Baroque Flemish sculptor, born in Ypres, but mainly active in Venice after 1657.He is also known as Giusto Le Court Giusto Cort or Josse Lecurt or Josse Cort...

. He is best known for over 150 statues produced by him and his studio for the estate and gardens of a single villa in Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

, the Villa Lampertico (also known as Villa Conti or La Deliziosa). Many are stock characters from commedia dell'arte

Commedia dell'arte

Commedia dell'arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. The closest translation of the name is "comedy of craft"; it is shortened...

theater; others depict the so-called bravi (desperadoes). They vary in quality, and are often executed in local stone. For the same villa garden, Marinali also completed a large fountain group: la Ruota, symbolizing the four corners of the world.

Many of Marinali's garden statues from the Vicenza area were removed to the Villa La Pietra outside Florence in the 20th century, to decorate gardens created there by Arthur Acton. They stand there alongside statues by the Paduan sculptor Antonio Bonazza

Antonio Bonazza

Antonio Bonazza was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo.Antonio was the son of Giovanni Bonazza, a prominent sculptor active in Padua , and member of a large family of sculptors. He may have been influenced by Orazio Marinali of Vicenza...

 who was influenced by Marinali.

Among his pupils was Lorenzo Mattielli

Lorenzo Mattielli

Lorenzo Mattielli was an Italian sculptor from the Late Baroque period. His name has also variously been written as Matielli, Mattiely, Matthielli, and Mathielli...

, who married the daughter of Angelo Marineli, Orazio's brother and collaborator.

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