Anton Maria Pirovano (active 1720–1770) was an Italian sculptor, painter, and architect, active in a late

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style, around

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in the region of

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Biography

He first trained under his father, the sculptor Pier Paolo Pirovano. His father was born in Viganò, but moved in 1698 to Sforzatica, and in 1705 to Pignolo. Anton Maria also worked for some time in

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with his father, sculpting reliefs for the cloister of

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, and in the restoration of the façade of the parish church of

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. His major works were sculptures atop the facades of churches of San Rocco in Treviglio and the Beata Vergine dello Spasimo (Santa Lucia) in

. He also decorated the parish churches of

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, Brembate Sotto, Cologno al Serio, Treviolo, Osio Sotto,

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, Fara d’Adda, Santa Grata inter Vites, Breno,

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, and Rivolta d’Adda.BGpedia
entry on Anton Maria.

References

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