Antonio Corradini

Antonio Corradini (1688–1752) was a Venetian Rococo sculptor celebrated for marble figures draped in veils so thin that the body beneath stays visible. He trained under Antonio Tarsia in Venice.

In 1716–1717 he carved eighteen busts and two statues for Peter the Great's summer garden, and from 1733 served as court sculptor to Emperor Charles VI in Vienna. In 1744 he settled in Naples, summoned by Raimondo di Sangro to decorate the Sansevero Chapel, where in 1750 he finished La Pudicizia, the veiled tomb of the prince's mother. He died in Naples in 1752. His bozzetti later guided Giuseppe Sanmartino's Veiled Christ.