Giovanni Giuseppe Piccini — 1725-2025
2025 marked the 300th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Giuseppe Piccini.
Discover all the dedicated initiatives on the official website giovannigiuseppepiccini.it.
An extraordinary sculptor, born and died in the small hamlet of Nona di Scalve, he grew up at the Ramus school and was a contemporary of Andrea Fantoni. His works are scattered throughout numerous churches in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, and Sondrio. But they can also be found in the private chapel of Count Borromeo, on Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore, where the masterpiece “Il naufragio dei discepoli” (The Shipwreck of the Disciples) still stands today.
A few years ago, the discovery in the archives of the Diocese of Bergamo of an autographed manuscript in which Piccini wrote a list of the main works of his artistic career allowed for the correct attribution of some of his masterpieces, including the kneeler on display at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, which until then had been attributed to Andrea Fantoni.
The Val di Scalve, through its public and private institutions, intends to dedicate 2025 to the memory of Piccini, through a series of initiatives that give due prominence to this shy yet extraordinarily talented artist, who, together with Cardinal Angelo Maj, is one of the most culturally significant figures in the history of this valley.
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