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Ercole Ferrata (1610-1686)
Professions: Sculptor
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ITALY, ROME, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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KREISFÖRMIGE PLAKETTE, Italien, 17./18. Jh., nach
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Attribué à Ercole Ferrata (1610-1686), Enfant au sablier (Allégorie ou Vanité ?) en terre cuite Italie, XVII e siècle , An Italian Terracotta Child with hourglass (A Vanitas Allegory ?) attributed to Ercole Ferrata (1610-1686), on a giltwood base
Ercole Ferrata Biography
(b Pelsoto [now Pellio Inferiore], nr Como, 1610; d Rome, 11 April 1686). Italian sculptor. He was apprenticed at an early age to the sculptor Tommaso Orsolino (fl 1616–?1674) of Genoa and was in Naples by 1637, when he is recorded as a marble-worker in the Corporazione di Scultori e Marmori. He remained in Naples for about nine years, during which time he carved several statues, including life-size ones of St Andrew , St Thomas and two members of the D’Aquino family kneeling in prayer (1641–6; S Maria la Nova, chapel of S Giacomo della Marca) as well as decorative and garden sculpture for villas of the nobility. Some of this work was done in collaboration with Cosimo Fanzago.
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