Giuliano Finelli

He was born in Carrara to a family of marble masons in a town associated with mining of the stone, and he initially trained with Michelangelo Naccherino.

He is also purported to have also been slighted by failure to be recognized as the detail master behind the Apollo and Daphne statue of Bernini.

Finelli is highly meticulous about carving tiny details, a focus which often seems to drain from the greater emotion of the piece.

[3] Finelli also completed the image of Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santorio (c.1630) at San Giovanni in Laterano.

Within a few years of leaving the employ of Bernini, Finelli left for Naples with his pupil and nephew, Domenico Guidi.