Filippo Parodi (1630 – 22 July 1702) was an Italian sculptor of the

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 ...

period, "Genoa's first and greatest native Baroque sculptor". Filippo_parodi,_battesimo_di_cristo,_03

Filippo_Parodi_(bottega),_madonna_con_angeli,_1690_ca

Biography

Born in Genoa into a family of sculptors, Parodi developed his facility with wood, then transferred his mastery to marble in the 1670s. His two extended sojourns in Rome refined his style; he joined the studio of

Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his ...

as an assistant (1655–1661), although he appears to have been influenced by

Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high- Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the maj ...

and his pupil Ercole Ferrata. Later on returning to Genoa, he met the French Baroque sculptor Pierre Puget, who stayed in Genoa from 1661–1666. Parodi developed a large studio to handle a large number of commissions. In Genoa during the 1661-1670s, he completed an ''Ecstasy of Saint Martha'' for Santa Marta, a ''Saint John'' for

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, and a ''Virgin and Child'' for Santi Vittore e Carlo. In 1691 he was called to Padua, where he and his studio were responsible for the six white marble sculptures of saints and the ''Glory of Saint Anthony'' (1689–97) in the polychrome marble setting of the ''Cappella del Tesoro'' ("Chapel of the Treasure") at the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. The cornice is crowded with celebrative angels by a ''stuccador'' from Lugano,

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. In

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, he completed the elaborate funeral ''Monument of Bishop Francesco Morosini'' (1678), in

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. For Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein of Vienna, he produced two allegorical busts: ''Vice'' and ''Virtue'', which remain in the

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, Vienna. The expressive bust o
''Vice''
has a specific Bernini source in Bernini'

His sculptures commissioned by Eugenio Durazzo in 1679 during the renovation of the Palazzo Balbi Durazzo, Genoa, remain ''in situ'' (the present

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); they are a sentimental
Christ at the Column
' for the chapel and a set of four mythological figures from Ovid's '' Metamorphoses'' (Venus, Clytie, Adonis, and Hyacinth) for the garden. The statues are emotive and often witty reworkings of sculptures by

. Parodi also worked with

Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli (1654–1735) was an Italian late- Baroque sculptor. Born in Massa Carrara, where he first worked under his father, Giovanni Ponsonelli, a sculptor, in Finale Liguria and Savona. He worked in Genoa under his father-in ...

(1654–1735) an Italian late-Baroque sculptor who was also his son-in-law. Parodi's son,

Domenico Parodi Domenico Parodi (1672 – 19 December 1742, in Genoa) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Gi ...

(1672–1742), was a painter of some merit, initially apprenticed with

Sebastiano Bombelli Sebastiano Bombelli (October 1635; 4 May 1719) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period. Biography He was born in Udine on 14 or 15 October 1635 (baptized on the 15th), educated and trained under the guidance ...

, then, in the early 1690s, working in the studios of Carlo Maratta and then his pupil

Paolo Girolamo Piola Paolo Gerolamo Piola (1666–1724) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Genoa. His father was the prominent Genoese painter Domenico Piola. Paolo Gerolamo was very active painting sacred subjects and frescoes. He was se ...

. Other pupils of Parodi were

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

Andrea Brustolon Andrea Brustolon (20 July 1662 – 25 October 1732) was an Italian sculptor in wood. He is known for his furnishings in the Baroque style and devotional sculptures. Biography He was trained in a vigorous local tradition of sculpture in hi ...

, the brothers

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, Francesco Bonanni, and

Bernardo Schiaffino Bernardo Schiaffino (1678 – 6 May 1725) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was one of two sculptors in his family, along with his younger brother Francesco Maria Schiaffino. He trained w ...

Filippo parodi, madonna del carmine, 1678 ca

Other works

*''Glory of the Magdalene'', high altar, S. Maria delle Vigne, Geno

*''Boy with a Skull (Vanitas)'' Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg *''Sleeping Christ Child'' ( Cleveland Museum of Art) *''Winter'' from a set of Seasons ( Cleveland Museum of Art).

Notes

References

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External links

Web Gallery of Art
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parodi, Filippo 1630 births 1702 deaths Artists from Genoa 17th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors