(b Pelsoto [now Pellio Inferiore], nr Como, 1610; d Rome, 11 April 1686). Italian sculptor. He was apprenticed at an early age to the sculptor Tommaso Orsolino ( fl 1616–?1674) of Genoa and was in Naples by 1637, when he is recorded as a marble-worker in the Corporazione di Scultori e Marmori. He remained in Naples for about nine years, during which time he carved several statues, including life-size ones of St Andrew, St Thomas and two members of the D’Aquino family kneeling in prayer (1641–6; S Maria la Nova, chapel of S Giacomo della Marca) as well as decorative and garden sculpture for villas of the nobility. Some of this work was done in collaboration with Cosimo Fanzago.

• Ferrata, Ercole
  • Medici, de’: (27) Cosimo III de’ Medici
  • Rome, §III, 5(i): Art life and organization, 1601–1700: Artistic environment
  • Rome, §III, 5(ii): Art life and organization, 1601–1700: Patronage and collections
  • assistants
    • Mazzuoli: (1) Giuseppe Mazzuoli
    • Rusconi, Camillo
  • collaboration
    • Cross, §III, 1(ii): Altar and processional: Renaissance and after
    • Guidi, Domenico
    • Rome, §V, 14(ii)(b): St Peter’s: Decoration
  • patrons and collectors
    • Pamphili: (2) Camillo Pamphili
    • Vasa, House of: (5) Christina, §1: Collecting and patronage
  • pupils
    • Italy, §IV, 4(iii): Baroque sculpture, c 1600–c 1750: Florence and Tuscany
    • Caffa, Melchiorre
      • Algardi, Alessandro, §3: Posthumous influence and reputation
      • Caffa, Melchiorre
    • Cateni, Giovanni Camillo
      • Cateni, Giovanni Camillo
    • Foggini, Giovanni Battista
      • Foggini, Giovanni Battista
    • Gabbiani, Anton Domenico
      • Gabashvili, Georgy
    • Maglia, Michele
      • Stucco and plasterwork, §III, 10(i)(a): Western world, 1400–1850: Italy
    • Marcellini, Carlo Andrea
      • Marcellini, Carlo Andrea
    • Ottoni, Lorenzo
      • Ottoni, Lorenzo
    • Piamontini, Giuseppe
      • Piamontini, Giuseppe
    • Rossi, Francesco de' (fl 1640-77)
      • Algardi, Alessandro, §1(i)(d): Subject sculpture: 1644–54
    • Soldani (Benzi), Massimiliano
      • Soldani, Massimiliano, §1: Training and early work, to 1682
  • restorations
    • Venus de’ Medici
  • teachers
    • Algardi, Alessandro, §2: Working methods and studio organization
  • works
    • Italy, §IV, 4(i): Baroque sculpture, c 1600–c 1750: Rome
    • Siena, §III, 1(ii): Cathedral sculpture
    • Spada: (2) Virgilio Spada