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Maiden with Goat by Odo Franceschi (1879-1958) bronze, Florence, Italy

About the Item

Maiden with Goat Florence, Early 1900s Odo Franceschi was born in Sesto Fiorentino in 1879. A student of Emilio Zocchi, Augusto Rivalta and Urbano Lucchesi, he began his studies at the Professional School of Art in his hometown and then continued his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the Free School of the Nude. Also a ceramist, he worked as a collaborator in the Ginori factory's art studio and in 1921 became a partner-owner of a small business related to the production of ceramics, terracotta, and stoneware. A teacher at the Sesto Fiorentino School of Art, he is the author of portraits, genre works, public monuments and funerary works. At a very young age he began his artistic career by making the Monument to "Umberto I" for the town of Castello in 1904. In the 1920s he was commissioned monuments to the Fallen in various towns in the Province of Florence and Prato: Mercatale Val di Pesa (destroyed), San Casciano Val di Pesa (1923, destroyed), Monteridolfi Val di Pesa, Montemurlo (1924), Barberino Val d'Elsa (1926), Cerbaia (1928, destroyed), Castello (1923) and Sesto Fiorentino (1925). For Sesto Fiorentino he also executed the monument to "Carlo Ginori" (1930, destroyed), the bust of which remains, currently preserved in the Doccia Museum in Sesto Fiorentino. In Barberino Val d'Elsa he made the monument to the poet "Francesco da Barberino" (destroyed) and for San Casciano Val di Pesa the plaque dedicated to Minister Sidney Sonnino. He is the author of numerous funerary monuments located in the cemeteries of Tolentino, San Casciano Val di Pesa, Sesto Fiorentino, Rifredi, Fiesole, Soffiano, Antella, Trespiano, and San Miniato. At the Giogo Pass (Scarperia) he created the monument to the "American Soldier": of the mausoleum, in memory of those who fell on the Gothic Line during World War II, destroyed in the 1970s, the travertine structure remains while a copy of the statue, depicting a soldier in a resting position, is located at the Falciani American Cemetery near Florence. In 1909 he won the I Premio at the Esposizione Donatelliana in Livorno with the work "Stanco," in 1917 he was awarded at the Esposizione del Soldato in Florence and in 1931 at the Esposizione di Montecatini Terme. The bronze "Cain" is kept in the Pinacoteca di Ravenna, while the busts of "Father Timoteo Bertelli" and "Urbano Lucchesi" are in the Pinacoteca di Lucca. The artist died in Florence in 1958.

Dimensions:

Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 17.72 in (45 cm)Depth: 10.63 in (27 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Bronze

Period:

Early 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1950 Circa

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Prato, IT