Resumen de Per gli scultori Calegari: una terracota al Victoria and Albert Museum e alcuni marmi in collezioni private
A terracotta and some works in marble are here ascribed to the Calegari family of sculptors from Brescia. Te head of the family, Sante the Elder is given the authorship of a "Bust of Dionysus", hitherto attributed to Bernardo Falconi, but its classical composture and stylistic traits securely connect it with other marble pieces carved by Sante in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The substantial oeuvre of his son Antonio, the most famous and talented member of the dinasty, is expanded with a refined terracotta acquired in the nineteenth century by the Visctoria and Albert Museum; this is a clay model for the statue of Antonio I "Martinengo di Padernello" (1764), still housed in the palazzo of that name in Brescia. In conclusión, two Angels "in Adoration" in a British private collection are revealed as one of the finest achievements by Alessandro, Antonio's younger brother, in the 1730s.
