Enciclopedia Cattolica

CORRADINI, ANTONIO

Volume IV · p. 371 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CORRADINI, ANTONIO. — Sculptor, born in Este towards the end of the 17th century, died in Naples on 12 August 1752.

An excellent decorator, he owed the full flowering of his art and personality to the example of Bernini. In addition to a marble group representing the *Bride*

Article illustration
CORRADINO di SEVVIA — Statue of C. di S. by the sculptor Albertor Waldsen (first half of the 19th century) — Naples, church of the Carmine Maggiore.

(*photo Alinari*)

BIBL.: F. Colonna di Stigliano, *La cappella Sansevero in Napoli nobilissima*, 4 (1835), p. 33; C. Biasuz, *L'opera di A. C. fuori d'Italia*, in *Boll. d’arte del Min. della pubblica istruzione*, 20 (1935-1936), p. 268; A. Callegari, *Le opere di A. C. a Este*, ibid., 30 (1936-1937), p. 250.