Orazio Marinali

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Orazio Marinali was an Italian Late-baroque sculptor (1643-1720), active mainly in the Veneto or Venetian mainland.

He trained with Josse de Corte. He is best known for over 150 statues produced by him and his studio for the estate and gardens of a single villa in Vicenza, the Villa Lampertico (also known as Villa Conti or La Deliziosa). Many are stock characters from Commedia del Arte theater; others depict the so-called bravi (desperadoes). They vary in quality, and are often executed in local stone, they are genre equivalent of sculpture. Also for the same villa garden, Marinali completed a large fountain group: la Ruota, symbolizing the four corners of the world. Marinali likely influenced the choice of subjects of Paduan Antonio Bonazza. Among his pupils is Lorenzo Mattielli, who married the daughter of Angelo Marineli, Orazio’s brother and collaborator.