Jacobus Minor San Giovanni in Laterano 2006-09-07

Angelo de Rossi (1671 – June 12, 1715) was an Italian sculptor. Born in

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, he was apprenticed to Filippo Parodi in 1680; Parodi's influence is clear in his first pre-1689 work, a ''Small Satyr'' in marble. Nearly unavoidably, he was also influenced by the work of Pierre Puget. He went to Rome in 1688, remaining there until his death; a 1692

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of ''Three Men in the Fiery Furnace '' won first prize in all three sculpture classes at the

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. In 1699, Cardinal

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appointed de' Rossi court sculptor in the

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, Rome, and put him in charge of making the ''Tomb of

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'', Ottoboni's granduncle, in

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(in parts finished after de' Rossi's death). Another important work is the

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''Saint James the Less'' in St. John Lateran, Rome (1705–11). The commemorative ''Bust of

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'' (died 1713) in the Protomoteca Capitolina of the Palazzo del Senatore of the Campidoglio, Rome, is also attributed to de' Rossi. De' Rossi was said to be close friends with Pierre Le Gros. With a promising career ahead, Angelo de' Rossi died prematurely in Rome. File:AlexandreVIII.jpg, Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Image:Angelo de Rossi relief.jpg, ''The Agony in the Garden'' copper relief of c. 1700,

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References

*Robert Enggass, ''Early Eighteenth-Century Sculpture in Rome'', University Park and London (Pennsylvania State University Press) 1976. *H. N. Franz-Duhme, ''Rossi ubeis Angelo de'', in:

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