Andrea Bolgi

Andrea Bolgi (22 June 1605 – 1656)[1] was an Italian sculptor responsible for several statues in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.

[5] Bolgi created his Saint Helena (1629–1639) for one of the niches at the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica, one of the choice commissions of his generation, for which he had doubtless been promoted by Bernini in preference to Finelli.

[6] Bolgi laboured for a decade on the figure that epitomised his career and, in some degree, his detraction: Wittkower remarked on its "classicizing coolness, its boring precision",[7] and its position directly across from Bernini's masterful Saint Longinus invited unflattering comparisons.

In the first bay on the left, the spandrel figures of The Church and Divine Justice were given to Bolgi, who was paid for them in September 1647 and in March 1648.

The movement and whirling of the cloths is a clear step forward in the development of the Baroque language, until then not known to the Neapolitan public.