Giulio Monteverde
Giulio Monteverde (8 October 1837–3 October 1917) was an Italian naturalist sculptor and teacher.
Biography
Monteverde was born in Bistagno, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He later became a professor there. [1] Among his students were Lola Mora and Victor de Pol, who both developed significant public work in Buenos Aires.
He was made a Officer in the Legion d'Honneur in 1878 and an Italian Senator in 1889. He died in Rome in 1917. [2]
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
- Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II - Rovigo
Sources
- ^ McKay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, London, 1995
- ^ McKay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, London, 1995
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