Giuseppe Giosafatti (1643–1733) was an Italian architect and sculptor, mainly active in the city of

Ascoli Piceno Ascoli Piceno (; la, Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and ''comune'' in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is around 46,000 but the urban area of the city has more than 93,000. Geo ...

. His father, Antonio, was born in Venice and active in the late 1580s. Giuseppe's father placed him as an apprentice to his cousin

Lazzaro Morelli Lazzaro Morelli (1619 – 1690) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. Born in Ascoli Piceno, the son of the Florentine sculptor Fulgenzio Morelli, who also trained Lazzaro's cousin, the artist Giuseppe Giosafatti. Lazzaro initially cam ...

, who worked in Rome for

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. In Rome, Giuseppe learned sculpture, and contributed to the work of the sculptural group of the Cathedra of St Peter in the Basilica and the Fountain at Piazza Navona. He had four sons, three of whom were also sculptors and architects: Lazzaro (1694-1781, also a painter); Lorenzo (1696-1780); and

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(1699-1785). He established a large studio for training artists in Ascoli. He was buried in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Ascoli.Descrizione Delle Pitture Sculture Architetture ed altre cose rare Della Insigne Citta delle Ascoli nelle Marca
by Baldassarre Orsini, Stamperia Baduelliana, Perugia, 1790. page 236-237.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giosafatti, Giuseppe 1643 births 1733 deaths People from the Province of Ascoli Piceno 17th-century Italian architects 18th-century Italian architects 17th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 18th-century Italian sculptors Italian Baroque architects Architects from Marche 18th-century Italian male artists