Resumen de Souvenirs d'Italie: Girolamo Viscardi e i marmi genovesi dell'abbazia di Fécamp in Normandia
The events that shaped the Italian peninsula in the decades around 1500 brought numerous foreign patrons into contact with local artistic production. The city of Genoa played a primary role in this context, and succeeded in establishing itself as the principal exporter of works in marble. It was in these circumstances that a commission came from Antoine Bohier, an important figure in the entourage of Louis XII, for a series of marble sculptures made for the Abbey of the Trinity at Fécamp in Normandy. In this case the sculptor, Girolamo Viscardi, was one of the most significant artists in Genoa at the beginning of the sixteenth century, a period in which sculpture underwent a decisive Classicizing renewal as it opened itself to precedents emerging from both the Certosa di Pavia and Tuscany.
