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Francesco Maria Schiaffino (1688 – 3 January 1763) was an Italian sculptor of the
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at Web Gallery of Art.
at Web Gallery of Art. 1688 births 1763 deaths 17th-century Genoese people 18th-century Genoese people 18th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Italian Baroque sculptors Rococo sculptors Artists from the Republic of Genoa 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub
Francesco Maria Schiaffino (1688 – 3 January 1763) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo
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, or late-Baroque
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, mainly active in his native city of Genoa
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.
Born into a family of sculptors, including his older brother Bernardo Schiaffino. In 1721–24, he apprenticed in the Roman studio of Camillo Rusconi. Returning to Genoa, he executed such works as ''St Dominic'' for the Teatro Carlo Felice, and ''Pluto and Proserpine'' sculpted for the Palazzo Reale. In 1738, he designed the theatrical funeral monument to Caterina Fieschi Adorno for the church of Santissima Annunziata di Portoria, Genoa. In 1739, he also designed wax models of eight apostles and four doctors of the church (modelled after the apostle statues in the niches of San Giovanni in Laterano
The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (officially the ''Major Papal, Patriarchal and Roman Archbasilica, Metropolitan and Primatial Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of A ...
by Rusconi and others; these were used by Diego Francesco Carlone, to execute in stucco for the church of Santa Maria Assunta di Carignano. He had statues sent to the towns of Sestri, Camogli, and Albissola.
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*Index of works
at Web Gallery of Art.
at Web Gallery of Art. 1688 births 1763 deaths 17th-century Genoese people 18th-century Genoese people 18th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Italian Baroque sculptors Rococo sculptors Artists from the Republic of Genoa 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub