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Earlier than any other Italian city, Naples assimilated Roman High Baroque sculpture through the activity of Giuliano Finelli; and in the Lombard Cosimo Fanzago Naples had an autonomous Baroque sculptor. However, the versatile Fanzago was capable of using side by side two idioms which would seem mutually exclusive: Tuscan Renaissance and Roman Baroque. The figure of Jeremiah with its masses of brittle folds, its luminous surface, and strong contrapposto movement is a characteristic Roman statue.
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