Gaggini, Pace

A member of a family of Lombard sculptors and marble workers from Bissone (Canton Ticino, now Switzerland) who were active in Genoa from the mid-15th century to the second half of the 16th century. The progenitor and founder of the dynasty, named Beltrame, died around 1476, so that Pace, although we do not know the exact date, must have been born around the middle of the 15th century. In 1493 he was hired as an assistant to work on the façade of the Carthusian monastery in Pavia, alongside his relative Antonio della Porta, better known as Tamagnino. At the beginning of the 16th century, in addition to the work on the Charterhouse, both are documented in various works for France, such as the tomb of the French governor of Genoa, Raoul de Lannoy, and his wife, Jeanne de Poix, sculpted in late Gothic language.agens pro Serenissima et Christianissima Maiestate Francorum Regis"for the construction of an altarpiece in Carrara marble. In 1519, on his return from Jerusalem, Fadrique Enriquez de Ribera commissioned him to paint the tomb of his mother for the chapel of the Chapter of the Carthusian monastery of Las Cuevas. The last known record of him is a deed of procuration from 1521, which suggests that he travelled, presumably to Spain, during which he died, as later, in 1525, it was his nephew Bernardino da Bissone, together with Antonio Maria Aprile, who travelled to Seville to install the tombs of the Major Adelantados of Andalusia in the Carthusian monastery of Las Cuevas.