Giuseppe Mazza

(b Bologna, 13 May 1653; d Bologna, 6 June 1741). Italian sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor Camillo Mazza (1602-72) with whom he trained for a time. However, he preferred to learn the art of painting, studying with the Bolognese fresco painter Domenico Maria Canuti and attending Carlo Cignani's life classes. None of his paintings seems to have survived. Mazza probably made the transition to sculpture after leaving Canuti's studio in the company of the painter Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. Both resumed their training at Count Alessandro Fava's private school in the Palazzo Fava in Bologna.

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Giuseppe Mazza (1653-1741) was a Bolognese sculptor of the Rococo period. He was active in Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Pesaro, and Venice. His masterpiece is a series of monumental reliefs for the Capella di San Domenico in the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice (c. 1720).

Mazza once attempted to restore Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, doing more harm than good.^{[citation needed]}

Before becoming a sculptor he had trained in the studios of the painters Domenico Maria Canuti and Lorenzo Pasinelli.

Sources

• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750". Pelican History of Art. 1980. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 449–450. 

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