Niccolò or Nicola Roccatagliata (1593–1636) was an Italian sculptor, mainly active in Venice.
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Born in Genoa, he is mainly remembered for his work in the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice including bronze statuettes of St George and St Stephen (1590),[1] as well as twenty-eight sconces in the form of putti, and two large candelabra. In 1633, he completed a highly emotive relief depicting an Allegory of the Redemption for the church of San Moisè in Venice.
References
edit- ^ still on the entrance to the balustrade across from the choir of San Giorgio Maggiore
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External links
edit- European sculpture and metalwork, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Roccatagliata (see index)