Gaspare Guercio

Porta Nuova beside Palazzo dei Normanni.
Porta Nuova gate, Palermo
The Trapani Madonna.

Gaspare Guercio (1611 - 1670/1679) was an Italian artist, nicknamed 'Guercio' and a major proponent of the Sicilian Baroque. He was principally a sculptor but also a designer of decorative schemes for architectural projects.[1] He collaborated with his pupil Gaspare Serpotta, father of the more famous Giacomo Serpotta.

  1. ^ (in Italian) Francesco Abbate, Storia dell'arte nell'Italia meridionale, Volume 4, 2002, pag. 121-122,ISBN 8879897209