Cosimo Fancelli
Cosimo Fancelli (born about 1620 with Rome, deceased in 1688, at the same place) is an Italian sculptor.
One of four wire of Carlo Fancelli (about 1566 - 1640), stone mason of Arezzo. With his older brother, Giacomo Antonio Fancelli (1619 - 1671), sculptor also, they were pupils of the Bernin and often worked together.
Cosimo undoubtedly helped his/her brother for decorations of the columns of the nave of Saint-Pierre (1647), and for the statue of the the Nile in the Fontaine of the Four-Rivers of the Place Navone (1648 - 1650; Rome); these two projects had been drawn by Bernin which also supervised them.
Cosimo also worked in collaboration with Pietro da Cortona of 1648 until the death of this last in 1669, then also between 1667 and 1669 with Bernin, Carlo Rainaldi and Johann Paul Schor.
It is one of the Roman sculptors most prolific of its generation, and its speciality seems to be in the great projects in stucco for the architects and the decorators. Its style depends much on the artists with whom he worked.
Works
- One allots in particular to him the Angel with the shroud on the Pont Saint-Angel , with the top of the the Tiber, according to a project of Bernin.
- It contributed to the decoration of Chiesa Nuova, with decorations of stucco in the transept.