French sculptor active in Rome as Michele Maglia. Between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Roman artistic environment saw the emergence of a small group of French sculptors who perfected, after having assimilated, the Baroque lessons of Bernini. Among these, Michel Maille initially trained as an ivory carver and later became student of Ercole Ferrata. He translated these experiences into works of great expressive intensity, such as that seen in the chapel of San Pietro d'Alcantara in Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, considered his best work. This expressive intensity is also visible in the statue of Religion from the funeral monument of Carlo Bonelli at Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. //