Guido Mazzoni, sculptor (1450-1518)

Guido Mazzoni, known as Il Paganino or Il Modanino was born in Modena in 1450. The success he achieved is particularly linked to a precise artistic genre that was very popular in Northern Italy in the fifteenth century: groups of multi-colour, life-size statues depicting the Lamentation over the Dead Christ.

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