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Francesco Queirolo (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko kweiˈrɔːlo]; 1704–1762) was an Italian Genoese-born sculptor, active in Rome and Naples during the Rococo period. Biography [ edit ]
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
Its origin dates to 1590 when John Francesco di Sangro, Duke of Torremaggiore, after recovering from a serious illness, had a private chapel built in what were then the gardens of the nearby Sansevero family residence, the Palazzo Sansevero. The building was converted into a family burial chapel by Alessandro di Sangro in 1613 (as inscribed on ...
Francesco Queirolo (1704–1762), 1 sculpture : Release from Deception, Santa Maria della Pietà dei Sangro, Naples ; Artus Quellinus the Elder (1609–1668), 6 sculptures : Luis de Benavides, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
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Other contributors to this chapel were Francesco Celebrano and the Genoese sculptor Francesco Queirolo. The statue of Veiled Christ is elaborately artificial (art historian Wittkower labeled it as a hypertrophic effort) by reproducing in stone the effect of a thin veil.
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In its time it was a splendid example of the Mannerist garden. Francesco had assembled most of the property, which was not a hereditary Medici possession, by September 1568, [1] and construction began the following spring. The garden was laid out along a perfectly straight down-slope axis passing through the center of the villa, which stood midway.