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Renaissance sculpture

The section dedicated to Renaissance sculpture includes works from the 15th and 16th centuries largely coming from local churches, the most representative nucleus of which is made up of the creations of Antonello Gagini and his sons Vincenzo and Giacomo. In a prominent position, in the center of the first room, the San Giacomo Maggiore, which Antonello Gagini sculpted in 1522 for the high altar of the church of San Giacomo, later the seat of the Compagnia dei Bianchi, in which the solemn classical gravity of the figure is combined with the artist's extraordinary ability to make the softness of fabrics vibrate with delicate effects of light and shadow. The three full-figure marble sculptures placed along the main walls of the room, depicting the holy apostles Philip and James the Minor and the young martyr San Vito, are the work of Vincenzo Gagini, son of Antonello. In the three examples, the young Vincenzo, while showing an evident assimilation of his father's style, adopts expressive methods and solutions typical of the language of the Manner. In the next room, the marble stoup stands out which the opulent community of sailors from Trapani commissioned in 1486 from Gabriele Di Battista from Como and Antonio Prone from Carrara for the church of Maria SS. Annunziata and the monumental sculptural group of the Risen Christ, once on the altar of the Sailors' Chapel of the same church, the work of an unknown master inspired by the model of the Tribune of the Palermo Cathedral by Antonello Gagini.