Giuseppe Sala, un maestro della scultura lignea in Lombardia tra Sei e Settecento

Wood sculpture in Lombardy between the mid-17th Century and the first decades of the 18th Century is a field in need of thorough exploration. In this context, the activity of the Sala family and its workshop in Pavia offers an ideal perspective for the analysis of the training and professional path of sculptors, the different skills available to patrons, the relationships with confraternities and vestry boards, as well as stylistic and iconographic preferences. The article specifically focuses on the early Milanese activity of Francesco Sala, before the workshop was moved to Pavia in the 1680s, and aims at reconstructing the catalogue of his son Giuseppe, who held an undisputed leadership in town until his death.