BRUSTOLON, ANDREA. — Sculptor and woodcarver, born on 20 July 1662 in Belluno, where he died on 25 October 1732. Having learned the rudiments of the art at the school of his father, a woodcarver, and that of Agostino Ridolfi, a painter from Belluno, he completed his artistic training in Venice in the studio of the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi, a disciple of Bernini, and even more so in Rome.
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BRUSTOLON, ANDREA – Armchair in carved wood.
Venice, Academy of Fine Arts.
the Assumption in the Seminary of Feltre), as well as in certain iconographic details, such as the reclining posture of the Correr Magdalene, reminiscent of Bernini’s St. Teresa. Other works: the Altar of the Souls for the church of S. Floriano di Zoldo, lugubriously adorned with skulls and skeletons; the altar of the Holy Cross at Mareson (Zoldo), with a Deposition and statues of s. Giovanni and the Magdalene; that of the B. V. Addolorata at Dosoledo in Comelico, covered with sober polychromy, as are often his sculptures, in homage to local tradition, surpassed but not forgotten; the s. Teodora for the Church of S. Giacomo at Feltre, as well as numerous Crucifixes and other works of sacred and profane subject, scattered among the public and private galleries of the Veneto, and particularly those of Venice and the Belluno area.