Bernardino Cametti

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Bernardino Cametti was a prominent Italian sculptor of the late Baroque (born in Rome, 1686- died in Rome, 1754).

Among his earliest works was a marble relief of the Canonization of St Ignatius (il Gesu, 1695–8), based on a design by Andrea Pozzo, and a ‘’monument to Count Vladislav Constantine Wasa’’ (Stimmate di S Francesco, 1698–1700), commissioned by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani (later pope Clement XI). His family originally came from Gattinara in the Piedmont, hence it was not surprising that after initially working in the studio of Lorenzo Ottoni in Rome, he was contracted to work in Turin to complete sculptural altar relief of the Annunciation(1729) for the Basilica di Superga, built by Juvarra, who also influenced the commission. Agostino Cornacchini (1686-1754) also contributed reliefs to the church. Cametti's relief influenced Filippo della Valle’s relief of the Annunciation for the church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome.

Cametti also completed statues of angels crowning the St. Francis Regis altar of the church of las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, which features a large relief by Rusconi. A Hunting Diana (1720) in the Staatliche Museen of Berlin is by Cametti. HisMonument to prince Taddeo Barberini in the church of Santa Rosalia in Palestrina in 1704 reflects a change in tomb sculptural designs, moving away from the emotive memento mori of high baroque towards a more serene attention to eternal fame and glory.