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Giacomo Paracca

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Giacomo Paracca was a 17th-century sculptor active in the Sacro Monte di Varallo. Around the year 1600, he completed the sculptural group depicting Massacre of the Innocents. He is also known as Giacomo Bargnola, or Bergnola, Paracca di Valsolda, or simply il Bergnola.

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  • Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Milan: Gaetano Schiepatti. p. 146.