Boy

However, a response of the highest value to Bernini's proposals was to come, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, only with the sculpture of Giacomo Serpotta, a most brilliant artist, of irrepressible yet rigorously coherent imagination, who was able to confer on the humble material he always preferred, stucco, the significance of absolute art, so much so that he has been judged one of the greatest sculptors of eighteenth-century Europe.