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The Gagini or Gaggini were a family of architects and sculptors, originally from Bissone on Lake Lugano. This family founded Sicily's Gagini school, which flourished until the mid-1600s. [1]
One of the most notable members include Domenico, who founded such school. One of the earliest records of his name involved a contract concluded in 1463, commissioning a monument in the church of the convent of San Francesco, Palermo, for Pietro Speciale. [2] His son, Antonello, is considered the most important of the Gaginis [2] and one of his works was the decorated arch in the Capella della Madonna in Trapani's Santuario dell'Annunziata. [1] He was also known for the decorations of the apse of the Palermo cathedral in 1510 [2] and the statue of St. George and the Dragon with panels inside the Church of San Francesco D'Assisi. [3]
| Pietro Gagini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soprana | Domenico Gagini | Caterina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Giovanni Gagini | Caterina de Blasco | Antonello Gagini | Antonina Valena | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Giandomenico s. | Antonino Gagini | Giacomo Gagini | Bonifacio Gagini | Vincenzo Gagini | Flora Gagini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Antonuzzo Gagini | Annibale Gagini | Francesco Gagini | Giuseppe Gagini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Giandomenico j. | Giuseppe Gagini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antonello Gagini (1478–1536) was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, mainly active in Sicily and Calabria.
Domenico Gagini was a Swiss-Italian sculptor who was active in Northern as well as Southern Italy.
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The Sicilian Renaissance forms part of the wider currents of scholarly and artistic development known as the Italian Renaissance. Spreading from the movement's main centres in Florence, Rome and Naples, when Renaissance Classicism reached Sicily it fused with influences from local late medieval and International Gothic art and Flemish painting to form a distinctive hybrid. The 1460s is usually identified as the start of the development of this distinctive Renaissance on the island, marked by the presence of Antonello da Messina, Francesco Laurana and Domenico Gagini, all three of whom influenced each other, sometimes basing their studios in the same city at the same time.
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