Antonio Gagini

Antonio Gagini (1504 - 1537) was a Italian Sculpteur of the 16th century. It is one of the family members of the Gagini, a great line of sculptors and painters originating in Florence. The family, as of 1463, settled with Palermo, in Sicily, where she exerted a considerable influence on the evolution of decorative arts.

Biography

August 1st

Works

Among the most notable works of Antonio Gagini, one can in particular retain the arc decorated with the Cappella beyond Madonna in the Sanctuary of the Annunciation ( Santuario dell' Annunziata ) of Trapani, completed, after six years of work, in 1537. This arc, with an entirely new design, surmounted with a pediment, is decorated not by simple images engraved as in a Bas-relief, but is decorated massive statues of busts of saints in relief. The pediment, as for him, represents lengthened saints, who support a plank carrying out to the shield which crowns it. Gagini has realized in this work composition daring which marks the appearance in Sicily of a form of decorative architecture specific, which will be translated, during by the blossoming of the sicilian Baroque.

Many examples of its work can still be admired today in the church S Sicilians, although many was destroyed by the successive earthquakes having followed its death.

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