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Filippo della Valle (26 December 1698 – 29 April 1768) was an Italian late-Baroque or early Neoclassic sculptor, active mostly in Rome. ==Biography== Della Valle was born in Florence. Initially apprenticed with Giovanni Battista Foggini in Florence alongside Battista Maini, then he and later Maini moved to Rome to work with Rusconi. In 1725, della Valle won a contest of the Academy of St Luke together with Pietro Bracci, and was later to become the director or ''Principe'' of that group. In Rome, he worked with Bracci on Salvi's Trevi Fountain, where he completed the allegorical statues of ''Health'' and ''Abundance''. Della Valle masterpiece is his ''Annunciation'' relief (1750) for the church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, a much more restrained and flatter relief than that of Bernardino Cametti's elaborate 1729 treatment of the same theme now at ''La Superga''. This reflected a Neoclassical influences transitioning into baroque sculpture, moving away from the theatrical to a more sober elocution of the subject. Another contrast can be found in Pierre Legros the Younger's handling of the relief depicting ''St Aloysious Gonzaga in Glory'' (1698), which stands across from Della Valle's Annunciation in Sant'Ignazio.〔Boucher, page 170.〕 He also completed the statue of ''Temperance'' (1734) in Corsini Chapel at San Giovanni in Laterano. The statue recalls Francois Duquesnoy's pioneering early baroque, yet soberly classic, Santa Susanna. In this chapel, della Valle, working with Maini, shows the influence of the Florentine Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. In style, della Valle was allied to the rising group of French sculptors in Rome including Michelangelo Slodtz. He also completed the monument for Innocent XII (1746) and a ''Santa Teresa of Avila'' (1754) for St Peter's Basilica. He died in Rome and was buried at Santa Susanna. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Filippo della Valle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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