Pace Gaggini

Pace Gaggini or Gagini (* around 1470 in Bissone , † after 1521 in Genoa ) was a Swiss-Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance .

Life and works

Pace or Pasio was the son of Beltrame Gaggini, sculptor at the Certosa di Pavia , then in Genoa. In 1493 he worked with his uncle Antonio della Porta, called '' Tamagnino '' , from Porlezza , with whom he worked almost constantly, on the construction of the facade of the Certosa di under the direction of Giovanni Antonio Amadeo . Between 1496 and 1504 he carried out various works in the Cathedral of Genoa , in the Chiesa di San Bartolomeo della Certosa in Quartier Rivarolo, in the Church of San Teodoro in Genoa.

From 1506 he worked on the main altar and the Renaissance tabernacle with the Holy Blood relic in Fécamp Abbey , then fountain in Château de Gaillon (1507, together with his uncle and Agostino Solari from Carona ); the tomb of Raoul de Lannoy and his wife Jeanne de Poix in the Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Folleville in Folleville (Somme) (1507–1508, together with his uncle)

literature

• La redazione: Gaggini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 22, 2009 , accessed January 13, 2020 .

supporting documents

1. ↑ Pace Gaggini at archive.org/stream (accessed December 22, 2016).
2. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Pace or Paxe, Paxinus, Pasio Gaggini. S. 372, 373 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch , accessed on October 9, 2017).
3. ^ Pace Gaggini. In: Sikart , accessed February 4, 2016.