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Giovanni da Nola name was Giovanni Merliano (Nola, 1488 - Naples, 1558) was an Italian sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Naples in the sixteenth century. Besides the Spanish artists active in the early sixteenth century as Diego De Bartolomeo Ordonez Siloam and that helped to create a true school of Renaissance sculpture, Whiting was able, with Girolamo Santacroce, merge the elements of art fourteenth century with the influences from Michelangelo from Rome. Son of Joseph and Eleanor Cortese, moved to Naples as a young man where he learned the art of Peter Belverte, Bergamo artist who worked as a master carver, and with whom he worked on the decoration of the portal of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata. To purchase arts practice in the two decided to go to Rome.
Returning to his homeland as a sculptor working primarily an architect. He also adorned the end of the pier known as the Fountain of Pier 4, represented by four statues of the main rivers of the known world, but nothing remains of the fountain because the viceroy in Spain led all stutue to beautify their gardens. His principal works are preserved in the most famous church in Naples. In architecture, designed many buildings including the Palace and the Palace Giusso di Sangro. He was also commissioned the tomb of Ramon de Cardona, Viceroy of Aragon died in Naples in 1522, but buried in the cathedral of his hometown Bellpuig. This tomb, carved in Naples and then transported piece by piece in Spain remains one of the first contributions of the Italian Renaissance in Catalonia.
He died in 1558 (according to some authors in 1560) and was buried in the Church of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples. The artist is often mentioned by GiorgioVasari in his book "The Lives of the 'Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects": best Giovanni da Nola, who was already old infinitissime works had worked for Naples>
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