Grazioso Rusca

Grazioso Rusca (1757 – 18 June 1829) was a Swiss sculptor who was also active in northern Italy.

Rusca's statues bearing the altar table, Cappella Colleoni, Bergamo

Biography

Originally from Rancate in the Swiss canton of Ticino, he was trained as a stonemason by architects including Simone Cantoni. He worked at the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano in Milan where he created reliefs for the cathedral's facade. In the 1880s, he worked with Austrian architect Leopold Pollack at the College of Pavia, creating two large statues representing Philosophy and Theology. From 1796–1797, his decorations for the Palazzo Belgioioso included bas-reliefs depicting Napoleon as Hercules helping Italy.

In Bergamo's Cappella Colleoni, he sculpted the two angels supporting Pollack's altar table. Again working with Pollack in Bergamo, he decorated the high altar at Santa Maria Maggiore and created the bas-reliefs of Apollo and the muses at the Palazzo Agosti. In 1805, he replaced Carlo Maria Giudici at the Fabbrica del Duomo, earning him a position of great prestige as head of one of the major sculpture workshops of the times. His son, Gerolamo and his nephew Antonio also were employed by the Fabbrica del Duomo.[1]

Selected works
gollark: > i'd support banning it straight through, independent of any mechanisms, as peer-reviewed research has showed it's shitIf you go around banning it, though, *there is clearly a way your government can ban that stuff*, hence meaning there's a mechanism for and/or support for it. And that's bad.
gollark: If there was a mechanism in place to stop people doing that sort of only-self-harming-maybe stuff, which there is now, it *would* (and *has*) been affected by political pressure.
gollark: Thing is, this mechanism for banning things would be controlled by a *government* or something, which means that when a sufficient mass of people complain that something is Clearly Immoral™ (see: homosexuality, drugs, whatever else) it would be banned.
gollark: Too bad!
gollark: Maybe require a warning or something, at most?

See also

References

This article is based on Wikipedia's Italian version.

  2. "Grazioso Rusca: Opere", Appacuvi. (in Italian) Retrieved 14 September 2012
  3. "Restituita alla città la statua della Pace", Comune di Cremona. (in Italian) Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  4. "Grazioso Rusca: Sant'Agostino vescovo e il bambino sulla spiaggia", Associazione Storico-Culturale S. Agostino. (in Italian) Retrieved 14 September 2012

Bibliography
  • Luigi Angelini, L'Arte Neoclassica in Bergamo. Gli interni del Palazzo Maffeis ora De Beni in via Pignolo 74, in La Rivista di Bergamo, July 1965, 3.
  • Giuseppe Martinola, Inventario d'arte del Mendrisiotto, I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, 433-440.
  • R. Ferrante, Palazzi nobili di Bergamo, Bergamo 1988, 106.
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