Ignazio Collino (1724–1793) was an Italian sculptor, active in the late-
Baroque
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period, mainly in the region of the
Piedmont
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Biography
Collino was born in
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
. Up to the age of 14, he worked under his father, Damẻ, from whom he learned wood carving. Along with his brother,
Filippo Collino (ca 1737–1800), Ignazio worked in a restrained formal style, intermediate between Baroque and Neoclassicism. He went to apprentice with the bronze sculptor François Ladotte (Francois Ladatte) and in drawing with Claudio Francesco Beaumont in 1744. With Ladotte, he completed a ''Saint Sebastian''.
A royal subsidy provided by Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy in 1750 enabled him to go to Rome. He was there in 1754 at work with fellow-Lombard Giovanni Battista Maini, who was a trainee of Camillo Rusconi. In Rome, he copied many antique originals, including busts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, of Faustina, and of a Vestal.
In 1755 he completed in Carrara Marble, the sculptural group of ''Papirus and his mother'', then a ''Niobe''. He completed the four statues, ''Justice, Strength. Beneficence and Charity''. He appointed in 1760 a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1763, he was appointed sculptor of the king after sending four bas-reliefs sent to the court of Turin.
In 1767, they relocated back to Turin to run the school of sculpture. He provided much sculpture for royal tombs of the House of Savoy at the Basilica of Superga, including the ''Monument for Carlo Emanuele III'' (1773). In Turin he founded a school of sculpture, Giovanni Battista Bernero was one of his pupils.
His brother Philip completed statues for the elegant fountain in the castle of Agliè: a statue of Pallas for the Royal palace of Turin and the statues of Vittorio Amadeo II and Charles Emmanuel III, in Carrara marble six feet tall, for the university of Turin. He also helped complete the royal tombs for the king of Sardinia, in the church of Superga, and finally the colossal statue of St. Agabus in Novara.
[F. Boni]
External links
Web Gallery of Art biography
References
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1724 births
1793 deaths
18th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
Italian Baroque sculptors
18th-century Italian male artists