Biography
Born in Florence, he began to work in that city as a pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini. In 1717 he moved to Rome, to continue his apprentice studies. His first important work was realized in Naples, in commissions for the richly decorated chapel in Palazzo Cellamare, in Via Chiaia, and its rusticated gate to the gardens with a scrolling pediment and a sculptured cartouche of arms, (1726—1727); Fuga's patron was Antonio Giudice, Principe di Cellamare. He travelled to Palermo in 1729-1730 in connection with a projected bridge over the Milicia.
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