Francesco Queirolo (1704–1762) was an Italian
Genoese-born sculptor, active in
Rome
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and
Naples
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during the
Rococo
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period.
Biography
He trained together with
Giuseppe Rusconi in Rome. Here he executed the statues of St. Charles Borromeo and St. Bernard in the façade of
Santa Maria Maggiore, a bust of
Christine of Sweden
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(1740), the statue of ''Wealth'' in the
Trevi Fountain
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(1735)
and the sepulchre of Duchess Grillo in
Sant'Andrea delle Fratte
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History
The current c ...
(1752).
After 1752 he was active in the decoration of the famed Neapolitan
Cappella Sansevero.
''Release from Deception'' (''Il Disinganno'')
''Release from Deception'' (''Il Disinganno''), produced in 1752–1759,
shows a fisherman being released from a net by an angel. The masterpiece was carved from a single piece of marble and can be seen in
Cappella Sansevero, Naples.
The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different quotations from the Vulgate Holy Bible put together:
''VINCULA TUA DISRUMPAM'' (''Nahum'' i. 13)
''VINCULA TENEBRARUM ET LONGÆ NOCTIS'' (''QUIBUS ES'') ''COMPEDITUS'' (''Sapientiæ'' xvii. 2)
''UT NON CUM HOC MUNDO DAMNEBIS'' (St. Paul ''1 Corinthians''. xi. 32)
“I will burst thy bonds asunder, / being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, / that you will not be condemned with this world.”
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1704 births
1762 deaths
18th-century Genoese people
18th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
Rococo sculptors
18th-century Italian male artists
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