Ceccardo Egidio Fucigna (1834–1884) was an Italian sculptor who established a long partnership with the architect

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. Fucigna worked as an assistant to John Birnie Philip until the latter's death in 1875, and then oversaw the completion of some of Philip's works, including the monument to

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, MP, at Halifax. He later worked with William Burges at

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, where he sculpted the Virgin and Child in the Roof Garden, at

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, where he was responsible for the Madonna over the drawbridge gate, and also undertook work at

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and at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fucigna, Ceccardo Egidio 1834 births 1884 deaths Sculptors from Carrara Italian expatriates in the United Kingdom 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists