Li Volsi

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Li Volsi was a 16th and 17th century Italian family of artists in Sicily .

Life

The starting point for artistic creation was the workshop of the brothers Giovan and Giuseppe Li Volsi in Nicosia . Numerous polychrome wooden sculptures, choir stalls and other furnishings for churches were created here, especially in the province of Enna . They were also active as plasterers and builders.

Giovan Battista Li Volsi later went with his sons from Nicosia to Tusa , where he founded a branch of the family business.

Giuseppe and Giovan Battista Li Volsi: Carved case for a figure of a saint (Saint Sebastian) around 1610. Chiesa di San Sebastiano (Mistretta)

Giovan Battista Li Volsi

Active in the first half of the 17th century, brother of Giuseppe, father of Stefano, sculptor of late Mannerism and Baroque

Works (selection)

  • Chiesa di San Sebastiano ( Mistretta ): design of the church with the brother Giuseppe ( 1610 )
  • Chiesa di San Sebastiano (Mistretta): Polychrome carved figures of Joseph with the baby Jesus
  • Cattedrale di San Nicolò ( Nicosia ): walnut choir stalls, together with their son Stefano Li Volsi ( 1622 )
  • Cattedrale di San Nicolò (Nicosia): wooden sculpture of Saint Nicholas and John the Baptist
  • Chiesa della Donna Nuova ( Enna ): Madonna and Christ Salvator (1617)
  • Santa Maria Maggiore (Nicosia): Sant'Onofrio as a hermit and a guardian angel
  • Chiesa San Giovanni Battista ( Tusa ): Statue of John on the main altar
  • Margherita ( Agira ): Carved wooden choir with the son Stefano
  • Chiesa di San Pietro (Mistretta): statue of the apostle Peter (1603)
  • Chiesa di San Giuseppe (Tusa): Sculpture of Joseph with the boy Jesus, church around 1600
  • Chiesa Madre (Tusa): Processional path, joint work by Giovanni Battista and Giuseppe Li Volsi

Stefano Li Volsi

Active in the first half of the 17th century, wood sculptor, son of Giovan Battista, allegedly also a student of Fazio and Vincenzo Gaggini

Works (selection)

  • Chiesa della Mercede ( Leonforte ): Archangel Michael
  • Cattedrale Santa Maria la Nova ( Caltanissetta ): painted wooden sculpture “Archangel Michael”
  • Cattedrale ( Nicosia ): Carved pulpit with “David and the harp”
  • Santa Maria Maggiore (Nicosia): Sedan chair of St. Lawrence

Giuseppe Li Volsi

Active around 1600–1650, carver and plasterer, brother of Giovan Battista, father of Francesco Martino, Giovan Battista the Elder. J. and Scipione Li Volsi

Works (selection)

  • San Nicolo di Bari ( Isnello ): Six stucco figures of the apostles (1607)
  • Chiesa di Sant'Agostino ( Gagliano Castelferrato ): wooden statue “John the Baptist”, together with Sigismondo Li Volsi (1597)
  • Basilica San Pietro ( Collesano ): stucco decoration in the presbytery
  • Chiesa Madre ( Corleone ): Wooden choir (1584)
  • Chiesa di San Nicolò ( Pettineo ) Design of the main portal
  • Museo Parrocchiale ( Mistretta ): carved figure “Sant Antonio Abate” (before 1601)

Sigismondo Li Volsi

Active in the first half of the 17th century, wood carver

Works (selection)

  • Chiesa di Sant'Agostino ( Gagliano Castelferrato ): wooden statue of “John the Baptist”, together with Giuseppe Li Volsi (1597)

Martino Li Volsi

Active in the 17th century, sculptor, son of Giuseppe

Works (selection)

  • Chiesa San Giovanni Battista (Tusa): main altar
Scipione Li Volsi: bronze monument “Emperor Charles V” (1630). Palermo, Piazza Bologni

Scipione Li Volsi

Active in the 17th century, sculptor and plasterer, son of Giuseppe, brother of Francesco, creator of wood and bronze sculptures as well as frescoes

Works (selection)

  • Chiesa Matrice (Tusa) carved sculptures Madonna Assunta (1644) and wooden Madonna statue in the Cappella del Santissimo Rosario (1632)
  • Chiesa Nadre ( Ciminna ): stucco decoration
  • Bologna, Piazza Bologni ( Palermo ): bronze monument to Emperor Charles V ( 1630 )
  • Cattedrale ( Cefalù ): stucco decoration (1650)
  • Chiesa di Aracoeli ( San Marco d'Alunzio ): Wooden crucifix (1652)

Francesco Li Volsi

Active in the 17th century, sculptor and plasterer, son of Giuseppe

Giuseppe Li Volsi the Younger

Active in the 17th century, sculptor and plasterer, son of Francesco

literature

Web links

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