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Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti
Nymph And Satyr Pair Of Sculptures Busts By Lanzirotti Signed Terracotta 19th

after 1830

About the Item

Pair of important Terracotta busts depicting the Satyr and the Nymph by Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti (Naples, 9 May 1830 – 1921) signed on the back. Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti was an Italian sculptor, he studied in Palermo until 1848, when he joined the Sicilian revolution of 1848, militating under General Ignazio Ribotti. When the insurrection failed, he was imprisoned in Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples, where during his imprisonment he was first sentenced to death and later pardoned. He was exiled from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and went to Turin, where he served as a grenadier for a year. Subsequently, he moved to Paris to work under Joseph Michel Ange Pollet. His first work was The Education of Bacchus, exhibited at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. In 1860 he joined Garibaldi's movement, was taken prisoner at Cap Corse, imprisoned for two months in Gaeta, then returned to Paris. There he completed: Punished Love, The Dance, the Mausoleum of Count Tyzhieviez, A Bather, which he exhibited at the Salon, Pleasure, Madness and many busts and portraits, including those of Cassagnac, M. Girardin, Doctor Armand Trousseau, writer Pierre Beaumarchais, of King Umberto I. In 1863 he returned to Turin, where King Vittorio Emanuele II commissioned the statues of the Conte Verde and Duke Vittorio Amedeo I. His other works were the statues La pensierosa, found in London, and La schiava, sold to the museum in Nice. Lanzirotti was part of many academies, was awarded the Cross of the Knights of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the Order of the Crown of Italy and the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
  • Creator:
    Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti (1830 - 1921, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    after 1830
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 9.85 in (25 cm)Width: 7.09 in (18 cm)Depth: 4.73 in (12 cm)
  • Medium:
    Terracotta
  • Period:
    19th Century
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1350114086222
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