Angelo Gabriello Piò (

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, 1690- Bologna, 1770) was an Italian sculptor, active in

in a

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style.

Life

In Bologna, he studied from 1711 to 1712 under Andrea Ferreri (1673–1744) . He was also a pupil of

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. After 1718 he studied in Rome under

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(1658-1728). In 1721 Piò became a member of the ''

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'' in Bologna. He worked with some of the prime Bolognese architects of the time: Carlo Francesco Dotti,

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and Giuseppe Antonio Ambrosi. His son, pupil and assistant was Domenico Piò (1715-1799). Other pupils included Filippo Scandellari (brother of

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) and Antonio Schiassi (died 1778).Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796
by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 746.

Work

Piò mainly used stucco and colored terracotta, working in the Emilian

style. He used these materials due to the scarcity of stone and marble, but was able to closely imitate stone carving. His works were mostly of religious, allegorical or mythological subjects. His more notable works include ''Fortitude and Prudence'' (Bologna, Gozzadini palace), ''Agony in the Garden'' (parish church of

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) and the funeral memorial of General Marsili (1733,

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). Angelo Piò created over twenty full-length plaster statues for the Sanctuary of San Luca, from 1746 onwards. The architect Carlo Francesco Dotti designed this church. In this work he collaborated with the plasterers

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and Joseph Borelli, who made the scrolls with Biblical sayings, and with Gaetano Lollini, who created the statues in the second chapel on the right. He also made a commemorative posthumous bust of the architect, which remains in the church. Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Bologna, 1975) - BEIC 6329035.jpg, Sculptures in the church of San Luca, Bologna Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Bologna, 1975) - BEIC 6329036.jpg, Sculptures in the church of San Luca, Bologna Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (San Giovanni in Persiceto, 1975) - BEIC 6329033.jpg, Relief in the Collegiata of

Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (San Giovanni in Persiceto, 1975) - BEIC 6329034.jpg, Statue in the Collegiata of San Giovanni in Persiceto

References

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