Santo Varni

Santo Varni

Santo Varni by Maria Ighina Barbano, 1894
Born 1807
Died 1885
Nationality Italian
Known for Sculpture

Santo Varni (Genoa, 1807 1885) was an Italian sculptor active mainly in Liguria.

He began his training at the Accademia ligustica di Belle Arti, where he was a pupil of Giuseppe Gaggini. He moved to Florence, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Bartolini . He is represented by more than forty works at the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa. These include the tomb of Bracelli Spinola (1864), the tomb of Andrea Tagliacane (1870), and the tomb of Asarta (1879). When Gaggini left the Genoese academy in 1885, Varni filled his post. His large collection of drawings and works of local artists was dispersed after his death. Among his pupils were Eugenio Baroni and Antonio Allegretti.

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