Matteo di Guaro Allio (1605–1670) 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, active mainly in
Padua. Born in
Scaria, in
Lombardy
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, Italy, he produced some of the sculpture for the lateral pilasters of the Capella dell'arca of the
Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. He worked there alongside
Girolamo Pironi. Matteo was the brother of
Tommaso Allio, also sculptor and architect in Padua.
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Getty ULAN entry
Italian Baroque sculptors
Italian male sculptors
17th-century Italian architects
People from the Province of Como
1605 births
1670 deaths
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