Scipione Casella

Scipione Casella (also Scipione da Carona ; verifiable from 1543 to 1553) was an Italian sculptor , plasterer and silversmith .

Life

Scipione Casella was the son of Fedele Casella and was probably born in Carona . Together with his father he worked in Palermo in the workshop of Antonello Gagini . In 1543 he and his father signed a contract for a marble statue of "Saint Cecilia" with depictions of her legend. This work was obviously not completed as it was later completed by Vincenzo and Fazio Gaggini .

In the same year, he and Orazio Alfani were commissioned to decorate the vaults of the cathedral tribune . Around 1547/48 he received a payment for a shrine of "Saint Christina". In addition to these works, the relief with a "Beheading of St. John the Baptist" from 1542 can be identified, which is in the Museo Diocesano di Palermo .

Casella presumably died before March 1553.

literature

• Andrea Spiriti: I Gaggini. Una stirpe di artisti bissonesi. In: Giorgio Mollisi (ed.): Bissone terra di artisti. Arte & Storia, anno 8, numero 41, Editrice Ticino Management SA, December 2008, pp. 42-43.
• Gioacchino Di Marzo : Gaggini e la scultura in Sicilia nei secoli XV e XVI. Palermo 1884.
• Enrico Mauceri : Casella, Scipione . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 110 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).