• Giuseppe Serpotta (1653–1719) was a Sicilian sculptor, the brother of the famous stucco sculptor Giacomo Serpotta (1652–1732). He died in Palermo. Serpotta, Giuseppe...
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    Giacomo Serpotta (10 March 1656 – 27 February 1732) was an Italian sculptor, active in a Rococo style and mainly working in stucco. Serpotta was born and...
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    (1719–21), by Gioacchino Vitagliano, after designs attributed to Giacomo Serpotta - both reliefs survive. A fresco of the Adoration of the Magi was also...
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    (1924–2012), photographer, publisher and collector Giacomo Serpotta (1656–1732), sculptor Giuseppe Serpotta (1653–1719), scultore Marcello Sorgi (born 1955), journalist...
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    projects. He collaborated with his pupil Gaspare Serpotta, father of the more famous Giacomo Serpotta. Born in Palermo, he was trained in sculpture by...
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    sixteenth century. Inside the church are stuccoes by Ferraro and Giacomo Serpotta. Near the church is the Municipio (town hall) and also close by is the...
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    merchants, and linked to Conventual Franciscans. In 1699-1706, Giacomo Serpotta realized a sumptuous stucco decoration, depicting the life of St Francis...
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    from Trapani (1700), at his feet, there are two statues made by Giacomo Serpotta: Mary Magdalen and Our Lady of Sorrows Saint San Francis of Paola, a painting...
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    Palermo. The oratory was founded in 1574. In the early 18th century Giacomo Serpotta realized a sumptuous stucco decoration. Moreover, the oratory is decorated...
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    stuccoes, including a relief depicting Angels and the Holy Father by Giacomo Serpotta. Other artists in the church included Giacomo's brother Giuseppe and his...
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    overwhelming parade of Baroque art, with stuccoes by Paolo Corso and Giuseppe Serpotta. Frescoes decorate the nave ceiling and the transept vault, painted by...
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    He was born and died in Palermo. He trained under Giacomo Serpotta, and married Serpotta's daughter. He sculpted the Fontana del Garraffo in Palermo....
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    remarkable stucco tableaux scenes composed during 1687-1718 by Giacomo Serpotta. This Confraternity or Compagnia del Rosario was founded in 1570 by a group...
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    Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (b. 1666) February 27 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (b. 1652) February 28 – André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker...
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    century another refurbishment was made. The stucco decorations of Giacomo Serpotta for some of the chapels include multiple macabre skeletal representations...
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    Statues: Saint John the Baptist, Giacomo Serpotta Mary Magdalene, Giacomo Serpotta Virgin Mary, Giacomo Serpotta Our Lady of Sorrows, Giuseppe Milanti Simeon...
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    della Pietà and San Mattia ai Crociferi. He also collaborated with Giacomo Serpotta in the designs of the Palermitan oratories of San Domenico and San Lorenzo...
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    The interiors are decorated with both woodwork and stuccoes by Giuseppe Serpotta. Some frescoes painted by Pietro Novelli were transferred to the regional...
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    tiled with maiolica is supported on the outside by telamons. The chapel of the Madonna del Carmine was stuccoed by Giacomo Serpotta. Church website....
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    Napoleonic army The interior stuccoes were made by followers of Giacomo Serpotta, and much of the interior frescoes were painted by Gioacchino Martorana...
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    of important Sicilian artists like Vito D'Anna, Pietro Novelli, Giacomo Serpotta, Giuseppe Testa (painter), Bartolomeo Sanseverino, Filippo Randazzo, Antonio...
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  • 1694) 1653 – John Benbow, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1702) 1656 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian Rococo sculptor (d. 1732) 1709 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German...
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    ("Palace Chapel") was built in 1683 by the brothers Giuseppe and Giacomo Serpotta, with a great profusion of precious marble, stuccowork, putti, and friezes...
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    March 3 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685) March 10 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (d. 1732) March 12 – Johann Heinrich Ernesti, German philosopher...
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    subsequent changes over the centuries. In the 18th century the sculptor Giacomo Serpotta created a sumptuous stucco decoration inside the church. Wikimedia Commons...
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    (1669, on the second right altar); two statues made in 1722 by Giacomo Serpotta representing Justice and Charity. Inside the nunnery there is the Madonna...
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    Santa Rosalia. The interior stucco decoration was completed by Giacomo Serpotta and his son Procopio. In the vestibule is a depiction of The Mystical Marriage...
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    decorated in the Baroque style. Some of the chapels contain stucco work by Serpotta and a main altarpiece of the Holy Family by Pietro Novelli (he also has...
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    1725). It has a baroque style and inside it there are two sculptures by Serpotta. Badia Nuova or (Monastero di San Francesco di Paola'), not to be confused...
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    1928. Sculptures and plasters of Giacomo Serpotta (Italian: Le sculture e gli stucchi di Giacomo Serpotta), 1911. Architecture and the beginnings of...
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