Agostino Corsini

(b Bologna, 1688; d Naples, 1772). Italian sculptor. He worked within the tradition of late Baroque classicism in Rome, moving, in his mature works, towards a Rococo style. He studied painting with Giovanni Maria Viani or Domenico Viani and sculpture perhaps with Giuseppe Mazza. Little of his early Bolognese work remains. He went to Rome in the 1730s and participated in numerous decorative schemes for major architectural projects. His contribution included several over life-size, marble statues: a St Jerome (1735), for the fa?ade of S Giovanni in Laterano (balustrade: sixth from right); Abundance (1735), for the Trevi Fountain (attic: far left); Pope Gregory the Great (1742-3), for the fa?ade of S Maria Maggiore (upper balustrade: second from left); and a St Luke (1744), for the fa?ade of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (second from left).

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