Ignazio Collino

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Ignazio Collino was a late-Baroque sculptor (1736-1793) mainly active in the Piedmont. He along with his brother, Filippo Collino (1737-1801), worked in a formalized restrained style, intermediate between baroque and Neoclassicism. A royal subsidy provided by Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy enabled him to apprentice in sculpture with François Ladatte and in drawing with Claudio Francesco Beaumont. He was sent to apprentice in 1754 with Giovanni Battista Maini. In Rome he copied many antique originals. In 1767, they relocated back to Turin to run the scool of sculpture. He provided much sculpture work for royal tombs of the House of Savoy at the Basilica of Superga, including the Monument for Carlo Emanuele III (1733). Giovanni Battista Bernero was one of his pupils.