Ignazio Buceti
Ignazio Buceti (active in Messina in the first half of the 18th century) was an Italian baroque sculptor in Sicily .
Life
He was a member of a family of sculptors in Messina that worked from the beginning of the 18th to the 19th century.
Ignazio Buceti created four ornamental fountains, two of which have been preserved. In 1741 he created the tomb of the doctor Giovanni Impellizzeri with a Chronos figure in the church of SS. Cosma e Damiano von Messina and a statue of Judas for the cathedral . Most of his work was destroyed during the great earthquake of 1908 .
His son Giuseppe Buceti worked in the style of his father, his most famous work is a large Marian column on the Piazzetta dell 'Immacolata Concezione.
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Works (selection)
- Fountain of the Abbondanza in the porch of Palazzo Monte di Pietà (Messina): marble sculpture “Allegory of Abundance” (1741). Based on a design by Placido Campolo
- Quattro Fontane fountain (1714), originally laid out by Innocenzo Mangani in 1666
- Sculpture "Maddalena dei Benedettini" (destroyed in a fire in 1848)
literature
- Giuseppe Grosso Cacopardi: Guida per la città di Messina. Presso Giuseppe Pappalardo, Syracuse 1826.
- Enrico Mauceri : Buceti (Ignazio B.) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 174 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - (In the family article).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buceti, Ignazio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Messina |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th century |
| Place of death | Messina |