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Roccatagliata, Nicolò
(b Genoa; fl 1593–1636). Italian sculptor. His known activity is confined to Venice. Soprani wrote that Roccatagliata fashioned models used by the aged Jacopo Tintoretto to plot his compositions; this would place Nicolò in Venice by the mid-1580s. He is first documented, however, on 31 January 1593, when he was commissioned to make the bronze statuettes of St George and St Stephen (h. 600 mm), still on the entrance to the balustrade across the choir of S Giorgio Maggiore. This church was the centre of the artist’s activity in the 1590s: twenty-two sconces in the form of putti were commissioned in 1594, another six in 1595, and two large candelabra, cast by Cesare Groppo ( fl c. 1596) and Giovanni Alberghetti ( fl c. 1600) in 1598. The next known date in his career is 1633, the date on the antependium depicting the Allegory of the Redemption in S Moise in Venice. Signed by Nicolò and Sebastiano (?his son), the relief was cast by Jean Chenet ( fl c. 1633) and Marin Feron. In 1636 he was commissioned, with Pietro Boselli ( fl 1590–1659), for the two bronze angels on the high altar of S Giorgio Maggiore. The later documentation for these works, however, mentions only Boselli, implying that Roccatagliata died around this time.
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