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Luigi Fontana (February 9, 1827 - December 27, 1908) was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect.

He painted religious subjects for the seminary of Fermo and the church of Santissimi Sacramento in Grottazzolina. He collaborated from 1879 to 1903 with Luigi Fontana and the ornamental painter Nicola Achilli of Montegiorgio (1858-1945). He compl...

Luigi Fontana (February 9, 1827 - December 27, 1908) was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect.

He painted religious subjects for the seminary of Fermo and the church of Santissimi Sacramento in Grottazzolina. He collaborated from 1879 to 1903 with Luigi Fontana and the ornamental painter Nicola Achilli of Montegiorgio (1858-1945). He completed the terracotta lions outside the Collegiate di Santi Lorenzo and Biagio in Monte San Pietrangeli. Nicola also helped Fontana in the design and application of fake marble decorations, and stucco decorations in the Cathedral of Montalto Marche, in the Collegiate Church of Santa Lucia in Montefiore dell'Aso, in the SS Church. Sacramento and Rosario de Grottazzolina, in the vast abbey of Campofilone, in the Basilica of San Nicola in Tolentino, and other churches in the Marches.

Outside his hometown, his works are present in Rome in the basilicas of Santi Apostoli, San Lorenzo in Damascus, San Giovanni in Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Maria sopra Minerva and other palaces, as well as In the cathedrals of Macerata, Montefiascone and Tivoli.

He also sculpted a massive silver statue of Saint Philip of Agira in Zebbug, Malta. It is a unique 2 meter high statue of classic style used for religious processional purposes with more than 36 kg of massive silver. The statue was completed in 1863 and can be seen at the Catholic parish church of the same city in Malta.