Lorenzo Bartolini

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Lorenzo Bartolini (1777 Vernio, near Prato, Tuscany - 1850 Florence) was an Italian sculptor.

After acquiring his skills and reputation as a modeller in alabaster, he went in 1797 to Paris, where he studied painting under Desmarets, and afterwards sculpture under François Frédéric Lemot. The bas-relief Cleobis and Biton, with which he gained the second prize of the Academy in 1803, at once established his fame as a sculptor and gained for him a number of influential patrons. He executed many minor pieces for Denon, besides busts of Méhul and Cherubini. His great patron, however, was Napoleon, for whom he executed a colossal bust, and who sent him to Carrara to found a school of sculpture. Here he remained till after the fall of Napoleon, and then took up his residence in Florence, where he resided till his death. His works are varied and include an immense number of busts, The best are, perhaps, the group of Charity, the Hercules and Lichas and the Faith in God. According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, popular opinion in Italy associates his qualities as a sculptor with those of Bertel Thorvaldsen and Antonio Canova.

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Machiavelli, from the Uffizi courtyard, Firenze	La Fiducia in Dio (copy from Hermitage)	La Fiducia in Dio (copy from Hermitage), detail	La Fiducia in Dio (copy from Hermitage), detail
La ninfa con lo scorpione	La ninfa con lo scorpione	La ninfa con lo scorpione, detail

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.