Il viaggio delle forme. Migrazione di maestri e modelli nella scultura barocca tra Roma e la Lombardia

This paper explores the circulation and spread of certain compositional models developed in Rome bythe mid-Seventeenth century in Lombard sculpture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Theexamples belong to sculptors gravitating around Ercole Ferrata's workshop, whose works were widelyknown by the following generations due to the legacies he made to academies and students. Inparticular, a group of wooden statues now in the Museo Diocesano in Scaria Intelvi offers thepossibility to check the terms of this spread. Giuseppe Rusnati, whose collection of exempla isdocumented by a post-mortem inventory and Giuseppe Antignati, sculptor active across the entireregion, are among the Eighteenth century Lombard masters who used these models.