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Serpotta was born and died in Palermo. And may have never left Sicily.
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Giacomo Serpotta
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His skill and facility with stucco sculpture appears to arise without mentorship or direct exposures to the mainstream of Italian Baroque. Rudolf Wittkower describes him as an aberrancy in an otherwise provincial scene, a "meteor in the Sicilian sky". In 1677, along with Procopio de Ferrari, he decorated the small church of the Madonna dell’Itria in Monreale.
His first independent work appears to be in 1682 in connection with an equestrian statue cast of Charles II of Spain and Sicily, which was cast in bronze by Gaspare Romano.
Cosma e Damiano in Alcamo. His work at the oratory of the Compagna della Carità di South Bartolomeo degli Incurabili in Palermo has been lost.
In style, he has a florid elegance that often recalls Antonio Raggi, a slightly older artist who was adept at stucco decoration and active in Rome.
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Born
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February 27, 1732 (aged 79) -
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Italy