Baseggio Family
The Baseggio Family included wood sculptors, painter, and an architect active mainly near Rovigo. Giuseppe Baseggio (c. 1727 in Rovigo – August 2, 1775 in Senigallia) was an Italian wood sculptor, active in Northern Italy, mainly in Ferrara and Rovigo. He was part of a large family of artists, who included his father a wood sculptor, Sante Baseggio the Elder (died 1766), his brother the painter Massimino (1737-1813), and his son, the sculptor Sante Baseggio il Giovane. The elder Sante was born in Venice and moved to Rovigo, where he completed the statues of San Bartolomeo and San Benedetto in the church of the Madonna dei Sabbioni, as well as the wooden decoration of the main entrance of the church of the Madonna del Soccorso. From Rovigo he moved to Ferrara. As a young man, Giuseppe after a few years in Ferrara moved back to his native Rovigo. There he completed the pulpit of the church of San Francesco and the statue of the Immaculate Conception for the church of the Concezione. Along with his brother, a painter of quadratura, he completed a number of processional statues and floats for local confraternities. Of Giuseppe's three children: Antonio was an engineer,