Angelo Piò

Angelo Gabriello Piò (1690 - 1770) was an Italian sculptor, active in Bologna in a Rococo style.

He worked with some of the prime Bolognese architects of the time: Carlo Francesco Dotti, Alfonso Torreggiani and Giuseppe Antonio Ambrosi.

[2] His more notable works include Fortitude and Prudence (Bologna, Gozzadini palace), Agony in the Garden (parish church of San Giovanni in Persiceto) and the funeral memorial of General Marsili (1733, San Domenico, Bologna).

[1] Angelo Piò created over twenty full-length plaster statues for the Sanctuary of San Luca, from 1746 onwards.

In this work he collaborated with the plasterers Antonio Calegari and Joseph Borelli, who made the scrolls with Biblical sayings, and with Gaetano Lollini, who created the statues in the second chapel on the right.