Giulio Monteverde

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

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Biography Monteverde was born in Bistagno, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He later became a professor there. Among his students were Yulia Brazol, Lola Mora and Victor de Pol, who both developed significant public work in Buenos Aires. He was made an Officer in the Legion d'Honneur in 1878 and an Italian Senator in 1889. He died in Rome in 1917, five days shy of his 80th birthday.

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Principal works Bambini che giocano con il gatto (Children playing with a cat), (1867) Pantheon of the Marquess of la Gándara: marbel angel, San Isidro Cemetery, Madrid Monument to Raffaele Pratolongo, (1868) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno

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Genio di Franklin (Franklin's genius) (1871) Jenner colto nell'atto di inoculare il vaccino del vaiolo al proprio figlio (Jenner 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, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno Monument to Vincenzo Bellini (1882) – Catania, Piazza Stesicoro Angelo della Resurrezione (1882) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno Tomba Celle (Cell tomb) (1893) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno 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 Two of his angel statues are among the most copied in the world of funerary art; the angel in Staglieno Cemetery known as the Angelo della Resurrezione (The Resurrection Angel), and the angel in Rome's Verano Cemetery known as the Angel of the Night. There are three of the Resurrection Angel in the New York City area, and three of the Angel of the Night in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Monteverde also created a Resurrection Angel for…Citește mai mult

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Sources The corresponding article in the Italian Wikipedia as it stood on 6 August 2006