Bernardo Falcone

Bernardo Falcone (c. 1620 in Bissone – c. 1696) was an Italian-Swiss sculptor of the Early Baroque.

Life

Bernardo Falcone was born to Domenico Falcone from Rovio and Lucia Grighi from Venice. He lived in Bissone, as evidenced by an inventory of his estates from 1676 and 1677. He worked as a sculptor mainly in Venice and left numerous statues in its churches and schools among which are the churches of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Zanipolo, and the Scalzi.

In Parma he worked on the statuary of Saint John the Evangelist. In 1682, he worked on four statues for the basilica of Santa Giustina in Padua and in 1694 on the colossal statue of Saint Charles Borromeo in Arona. Various works in the churches of Rovigo are also attributed to him

References

Sources

• Godet, Marcel; Türler, Heinrich; Attinger, Victor (1921). Dictionnaire historique & biographique de la Suisse : publié avec la recommandation de la Société générale suisse d'histoire et sous la direction de Marcel Godet, Henri Türler [et] Victor Attinger avec de nombreux collaborateurs de tous les cantons [Historical & Biographical Dictionary of Switzerland: published with the recommendation of the Société générale suisse d'histoire and under the direction of Marcel Godet, Henri Türler [and] Victor Attinger with many collaborators from all cantons] (in French). Neuchâtel : Administration du Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse.
• "Falcone, Bernardo [Falcon, Bernhard] - SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz". www.sikart.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
• "Bernardo Falcone". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.