Giovanni Battista Bernero

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Giovanni Battista Bernero (1736 - 1796) was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor mainly active in the Piedmont.

He worked in a formalized restrained style, intermediate between baroque and Neoclassicism. A royal subsidy provided by Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy enabled him to apprentice with the royal academy of sculpture in Turin under Claudio Francesco Beaumont.

In 1765 traveled to Rome were he trained under the Piedmontese brothers Ignazio and Filippo Collino. He completed a statue of the Magdalene (1770, Cathedral of Casale Monferrato). He is known for his sculpture of mythologic figures associated with the hunt for the royal hunting lodge at Stupinigi as well as a stucco relief for Carignano Cathedral, depicting St. Remigius and St. John the Baptist.