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Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high- Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Rome.
Baroque art and architecture. Alessandro Algardi (born July 31, 1595, Bologna, Papal States [Italy]—died June 10, 1654, Rome) was one of the most important Roman sculptors of the 17th century working in the Baroque style. Algardi, Alessandro: Meeting of Attila and Pope Leo.
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Alessandro Algardi, (born July 31, 1595, Bologna, Papal States—died June 10, 1654, Rome), Italian sculptor. He trained in Bologna under the Carracci family and in 1625 moved to Rome, where he designed the stucco decorations in San Silvestro al Quirinale. He later became the most outstanding Baroque sculptor in Rome after Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654) One of the greatest Baroque sculptors, and the only one to rival Bernini (1598-1680), the Italian artist Alessandro Algardi was the main exponent of the style known as high baroque classicism. This was a style mid-way between the dramatic naturalism of Bernini and the restrained classicism of the Flemish artist ...
Alessandro Algardi. Alexander Algardinus, Alexander Algardus, Alexander Algardius, Alexander Algardi, Aless.ro Alghardi. Role (s): Artist. For works by Alessandro Algardi in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, click on the Works of Art tab below. For selected works from other institutions, follow this link to the Images page.
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After carving ivory and modeling figures and ornaments for Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga in Mantua, Algardi settled in Rome by 1625. For ten years, he restored ancient sculpture while becoming known for portrait busts that captured both inward character and details of appearance.
Algardi's third major monumental commission of the 1630s is the over life-size marble group of St Filippo Neri with an Angel (1635–38; Rome, Santa Maria in Vallicella), carved for Pietro Buoncompagni, a descendant of a Roman Jewish family who possibly had Bolognese connections. It stands above the sacristy altar and was intended to provide ...
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