Giulio Monteverde

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Giulio Monteverde (8 October 1837–3 October 1917) was an Italian naturalist sculptor.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Principal works 3 Sources 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Principal works

• Bambini che giocano con il gatto (Children playing with a cat), (1867)
• Monument to Raffaele Pratolongo, (1868) – Genoa, Staglieno cemetery
• Colombo giovinetto (The boy Columbus) (1870)
• Genio di Franklin (Franklin’s genius) (1871)
• Jenner colto nell'atto di inoculare il vaccino del vaiolo al proprio figlio (Jenner caught in the act of vaccinating his own son against smallpox) (1873) – Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
• Monument to Giuseppe Mazzini (1879) – Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Cristo morto (Christ dead') (1880) – Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Argentina
• Monument to Francesco Oneto (1882) – Genoa, Staglieno cemetery
• Tomba Celle (Cell tomb) (1893) – Genoa, Staglieno cemetery
• Idealità e materialismo (Idealism and materialism) (1911) – Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
• Il pensiero (The thought) – Rome, Vittoriano

[edit] Sources

• The corresponding article in the Italian Wikipedia as it stood on 6 August 2006
• Giulio Monteverde (Italian)

[edit] External links

• The gipsoteca (gallery of plaster casts) of Giulio Monteverde in Bistagno (Italian)
• Giulio Monteverdi (Italian). La Scultura Italiana.
• Statue of Giuseppe Saracco, Acqui Terme (Italian)