Camillo Mariani

Camillo Mariani (1565–1611) was an Italian sculptor of the early Baroque.

Biography

Born in Vicenza, Italy, he apprenticed in the studio of the prominent Venetian Mannerist sculptor Alessandro Vittoria. He helped complete the stucco decoration for Villa Cornaro in the Veneto.

In 1597, he moved to Rome. His first works in Rome were stucco statuary for the churches of San Bernardo alle Terme (1600) and of the Gesù. Emblematic of his emotional depictions is his Saint Catherine of Alexandria. One of his apprentices, Francesco Mochi, took over his studio upon his death. He was buried in the church of Santa Susanna in Rome.^[1]

Notes

1. Della storia e della ragione d'ogni poesia, + indice universale della storia, By Francesco Saver Quadrio, Milan, (1744) page 541.

Sources

• Middeldorf, Ulrich (1976). "Camillo Mariani, Scultore-Pittore". The Burlington Magazine: 500, 502–3, 504.
• Baglione, Giovanni (1641). Giovanni Battista Passari, ed. Le Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Intagliatori dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572. fino a’ tempi de Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642. (Lives of the painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers during the papacies of Gregory XII in 1572 to Urban VIII in 1642). 1731 edition (Naples); Digitized by Googlebooks. p. 107.

External links

• Web biography