Giuseppe Rusconi was born in Tremona (today Switzerland) in 1687. He came to Rome at the age of 18 (in 1705 or 1706) and entered the workshop of Camillo Rusconi, where he stayed first as student, then as workshop assistant and collaborator until his teacher’s death in 1728. Camillo Rusconi and his workshop worked on some of the most important commissions for sculpture in Rome in the early 18th century. Giuseppe was accepted as a member of the Accademia di San Luca in August of 1728, when Camillo was president and shortly before his death. Giuseppe took over Camillo’s workshop after the master’s death, completed commissions begun by Camillo but left unfinished at his death, and carried our new commissions. His most prestigious project was the statue of St. Ignatius for St. Peter in Rome, which Camillo had barely begun. The most important commission he received independently was a sculpture of Fortitude for the Corsini Chapel in St. John of the Lateran. The Corsini chapel was one of the most important artistic projects in Rome at the time. Giuseppe was a respected artist and his knowledge and judgement in artistic matters was valued. He was one of seven artists called in to give their opinion on plans for the façade of St. John of Lateran. Shortly before his death he was commissioned to execute a St. John of God for a niche in St. Peter (not completed, a terracotta model survives). Giuseppe dies prematurely in 1737. His early death is the reason that his oeuvre is small and that he is lesser known today. Most of Giuseppe’s works are in situ. The only other portrait by him is a portrait of his teacher, Camillo Rusconi, from 1735 (Rome, Protomoteca Capitolina).