Innocenzo Spinazzi [SEP] place of death
Innocenzo Spinazzi
Innocenzo Spinazzi (1726–1798) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo period active in Rome and Florence.
Biography.
Born in Rome the son of a silversmith, he became the leading sculptor in Florence, where he died. He was trained by Giovanni Battista Maini. In Rome, he completed the statue of "St Joseph Calasanctius" (1755) for the nave of St Peter's Basilica. 
He arrived in Florence in 1769, and the next year was named official court sculptor in 1770.
portraying the "Baptism of Christ" by Andrea Sansovino. The originals are in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. He then left to Rome to work on a new commission, leaving these statues unfinished. Work on these statues was continued much later in 1569 by Vincenzo Danti, a sculptor from the school of Michelangelo. At his death in 1576 the group was almost finished. The group was finally completed with the addition of an angel by Innocenzo Spinazzi in 1792.
Exterior Images from the doors.
Reproduction examples in situ