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Ignazio Buceti (active in Messina in the first half of the 18th century) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque in Sicily.

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He was a member of a family of sculptors in Messina, from the beginning of the 18th to the 19th century.

Ignazio Buceti was the creator of four ornamental fountains, two of which have survived. In the church of SS. Cosma e Damiano of Messina, he created the tombstone of the doctor Giovanni Impellizzeri in 1741 with a Chronos figure and a statue of Judas for the cathedral. Most of his works were destroyed during the great earthquake of 1908.

His son Giuseppe Buceti worked in the father's style, his most famous work is a large column of the Piazzetta dell 'Immacolata Concezione. Ignazio Buceti: ​​Portrait of the doctor Giovanni Impellizzeri Works (selection) Edit source text Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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