BRUSTOLON, ANDREA. — Sculptor and wood-carver, born 20 July 1662 at Belluno, died there 25 Oct. 1732. He learned the rudiments of his craft in the workshop of his father, a wood-carver, and in that of Agostino Ridolfi, a Bellunese painter. He completed his artistic training in Venice in the studio of the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi, a pupil of Bernini, and later in Rome.
The traces of this Baroque and Berninesque training are most evident in certain sculptures (the Angel in the sacristy of S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the “Venier” furniture, the Assumption in the Seminary of Feltre), as well as in certain iconographic details, such as the swooning posture of the Maddalena Correr, reminiscent of Bernini’s St Teresa. Other works include the Altare delle Anime for the church of S. Floriano at Zoldo, lugubriously adorned with skulls and skeletons; the altar of the Holy Cross at Mareson (Zoldo) with a Deposition and statues of St John and the Magdalene; that of the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows at Dosolodo in Comelico, clad in a sober polychromy, as are often his sculptures in homage to the local tradition, transcended but not forgotten; the St Theodora for the church of S. Giacomo at Feltre, as well as numerous Crucifixes and other sacred and profane subjects scattered through public and private galleries of the Veneto, and especially of Venice and the Bellunese district.
