Francesco Maria Schiaffino

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Francesco Maria Schiaffino (1688-1763) was a Genoese sculptor of the Italian Rococco.

Born into a family of sculptors, including his older brother Bernardo Schiaffino. In 1721-24, he apprenticed in the Roman studio of Camillo Rusconi. Returning to Genoa, he executed such works as St Dominic for the Teatro Carlo Felice and Pluto and Proserpine sculpted for the Palazzo Reale. In 1738 he designed the theatrical funeral monument to Caterina Fieschi Adorno for the church of SS Annunziata di Portoria, Genoa. In 1739, he also designed wax models of eight apostles and four doctors of the church (modelled after the apostle statues in the niches of San Giovanni in Laterano by Rusconi and others; these were used by Diego Francesco Carlone, to execute in stucco for the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Carignano.

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[1] Web Gallery of Art biography

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