Levis de, Giuseppe

Believed to be a provincial artist, perhaps Jewish, given his surname and his predilection for the Latin form of its signature, Giuseppe de Levis was born in Verona in 1552. Following the example of his elder brother Santo, he turned to bronze sculpture, far surpassing his family predecessors. He went on to run a flourishing workshop specialising in bell casting from 1576 onwards. In the field of so-called major sculpture, Levis joined forces with Angelo Rossi from Verona, to whom we owe the statuettes of St George and St John the Baptist, dating from around 1600, for the stoups of S. Giorgio in Braida in Verona. He died between 1611 and 1614 in Verona.