Filippo Parodi (1630 – 22 July 1702) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, "Genoa's first and greatest native Baroque sculptor". Filippo_parodi,_battesimo_di_cristo,_03

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Biography

Born in

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into a family of sculptors, Parodi developed his facility with wood, then transferred his mastery to marble in the 1670s. His two extended sojourns in Rome refined his style; he joined the studio of Bernini as an assistant (1655–1661), although he appears to have been influenced by

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and his pupil

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. Later on returning to Genoa, he met the French Baroque sculptor

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, who stayed in Genoa from 1661–1666. Parodi developed a large studio to handle a large number of commissions. In Genoa during the 1661-1670s, he completed an ''Ecstasy of Saint Martha'' for Santa Marta, a ''Saint John'' for Santa Maria di Carignano, and a ''Virgin and Child'' for Santi Vittore e Carlo. In 1691 he was called to

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, where he and his studio were responsible for the six white marble sculptures of saints and the ''Glory of Saint Anthony'' (1689–97) in the polychrome marble setting of the ''Cappella del Tesoro'' ("Chapel of the Treasure") at the

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. The cornice is crowded with celebrative angels by a ''stuccador'' from Lugano, Pietro Roncaioli. In

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, he completed the elaborate funeral ''Monument of Bishop

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'' (1678), in San Nicolò da Tolentino. For Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein of Vienna, he produced two allegorical busts: ''Vice'' and ''Virtue'', which remain in the Liechtenstein collection, Vienna. The expressive bust o
''Vice''
has a specific Bernini source in Bernini'

His sculptures commissioned by Eugenio Durazzo in 1679 during the renovation of the

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, Genoa, remain ''in situ'' (the present Palazzo Reale); they are a sentimental
Christ at the Column
' for the chapel and a set of four mythological figures from

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's ''

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'' (Venus, Clytie, Adonis, and Hyacinth) for the garden. The statues are emotive and often witty reworkings of sculptures by Bernini. Parodi also worked with Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli (1654–1735) an Italian late-Baroque sculptor who was also his son-in-law. Parodi's son,

Domenico Parodi Domenico Parodi (1672 – 19 December 1742, in Genoa) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Gi ...

(1672–1742), was a painter of some merit, initially apprenticed with Sebastiano Bombelli, then, in the early 1690s, working in the studios of

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and then his pupil Paolo Girolamo Piola. Other pupils of Parodi were Angelo de' Rossi, Andrea Brustolon, the brothers Francesco,

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, and Bernardo Schiaffino. Filippo parodi, madonna del carmine, 1678 ca

Other works

*''Glory of the Magdalene'', high altar, S. Maria delle Vigne, Geno

*''Boy with a Skull (Vanitas)''

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the largest ...

, Saint Petersburg *''Sleeping Christ Child'' (

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

) *''Winter'' from a set of Seasons (

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References

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External links

Web Gallery of Art
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parodi, Filippo 1630 births 1702 deaths Artists from Genoa 17th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors