Agostino Corsini

Place: Bologna

Born: 1688

Death: 1772

Biography:

Agostino Corsini was an Italian artist born in Bologna in 1688 and died in 1772. He worked in his native Bologna and also in Rome, where he made the figure of Abundance for the Trevi Fountain in 1735. He worked in the style of late Baroque Classicism and later in the Rococo style. Corsini is known for his work on the Trevi Fountain and for his statue of the Conception, created in 1734 for the chapel of the Conception in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. He also worked on the new façade of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran and the purchase of Cardinal Alessandro Albani's collection of antiquities for the papal gallery. In 1738, he provided the first public papal condemnation of Freemasonry in his bull In eminenti apostolatus.