Adamo Tadolini

Statue of St. Paul, St. Peter's Square

Simon Bolivar's equestrian statue in Lima

Equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar in Caracas

King David at the Colonna dell'Immacolata on the Piazza Mignanelli south of the Piazza di Spagna in Rome

Adamo Tadolini (born December 21, 1788 in Bologna , † February 16 or 23, 1868 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

Tadolini attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna from 1808 to 1813 , directed by Giacomo De Maria (1762-1838). In 1813 he won the Curlandese Prize awarded by the Accademia with a terracotta relief . The relief depicts Venus handing Aeneas arms. In the same year Tadolini went to Rome with a four-year scholarship from the Accademia. There he made a plaster statue of Ajax cursing the gods . With this he won a prize advertised by Antonio Canova for young sculptors and then became an assistant in Canova's studio. He stayed there until 1822. In 1830 and 1858 he exhibited in London . In the former Atelier Canovas and Tadolini in Rome (Via del Babuino 150 AB), the Museo Atelier Canova Tadolini has been located since 2000 , in which busts made by them in marble and plaster as well as work objects are exhibited. The museum is operated by the Galleria Benucci. After Tadolini's death, his son Scipione Tadolini (1822-1892) took over the studio. His son Tito Tadolini (1828–1910) and the descendants of Scipiones, Giulio Tadolini (1849–1918) and Enrico Tadolini (1888–1967) were also sculptors.

Important works

• 1816: Venus and Cupid
• 1818: Bust of Clotilde Tambroni on her grave in the Charterhouse of Bologna
• 1823: marble statue of Ganymede watering the eagle
• 1826: Marble monument to Monsignor Alessandro Buttaoni in the church of S. Croce e S. Bonaventura dei Lucchesi in Rome
• The Bacchante on the first floor in Room VI of the Borghese Gallery
• The robbery of Ganymede in the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg)
• Copy of Canovas Pauline Borghese as Venus (marble statue on wooden base)
• 1830: Statue of Saint Marinus in the Basilica of San Marino
• 1836–42: Tomb for the Begum Sombre , Sardhana ( Uttar Pradesh ), Basilica of Our Lady of Grace
• 1838: Marble statue of Saint Paul in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican
• 1844: Marble monument to Palmira Pulieri Petracchi e Enrico Pulieri in the church of Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco in Rome
• Late 1840s: Statue of St. Francis de Sales in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (on behalf of King Carlo Alberto )
• from 1852: Bronze equestrian statue of Libertador Simón Bolívar on the Plaza del Congreso in Lima , Peru and on the Plaza Bolivar in Caracas , Venezuela
• 1855–56: Statue of King David at the Colonna dell'Immacolata on the Piazza Mignanelli in Rome
• 1858: Bust of Cardinal Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere in the Cathedral of Bologna

Fonts

• Giulio Tadolino (Ed.): Ricordi autobiografici di Adamo Tadolini scultore. Rome 1900 ( archive.org ).

literature

• Tadolini, Adamo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 398 .
• Eugenio Busmanti: Tadolini: alla scoperta dello studio romano di Adamo Tadolini, allievo e collaboratore di Antonio Canova. In: Gazzetta antiquaria. 37, 2000, ZDB -ID 330603-3 , pp. 29-36.
• Jörgen Birkedal Hartmann: I centocinquant'anni dello studio Tadolini in Via dei Greci. In: Tamara Hufschmidt: Tadolini. Adamo, Scipione, Giulio, Enrico. Quattro generazioni di scultori a Roma nei secoli XIX e XX. Gruppo dei Romanisti Rome 1996, pp. 21-32 (= Collana dei Romanisti 3).
• Teresa Orfanello: Atelier di scultura. In: MCM. 48, 2000, ISSN  0393-8190 , pp. 28-31.
• Ida Panicelli: Adamo Tadolini. In: Miscellanea. Bulzoni, Rom 1975, pp. 157-166. (= Quaderni sul neoclassico 3, 1975, ZDB -ID 436419-3 ).
• Claudio Libero Pisano: Lo studio di Adamo Tadolini, scultore a Roma. In: Orietta Rossi Pinelli (ed.): La fabbrica della scultura: scultori e botteghe d'arte a Roma tra XVIII e XIX secolo. Carocci, Rome 2000, pp. 51-63, ISBN 88-430-1645-8 (= Ricerche di storia dell'arte 70/2000).
• Rita Randolfi: Adamo Tadolini e la complicata storia del monumento sepolcrale del cardinal Alessandro Lante a Bologna. In: Neoclassico. 27/28, 2005, ZDB -ID 1161150-9 , pp. 159-172.
• Luigi Verdi: Il monumento Rossini-Colbran alla Certosa di Bologna. In: Il carrobbio. 30/2004, ISSN  0392-3347 , pp. 231-238.

Web links

Commons : Adamo Tadolini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pictures of the works of Tadolini

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alessia Marchi, Adamo Tadolini. ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Gary Nisbet: Scipione Tadolini (1822-92) at glasgowsculpture.com.
3. ↑ certosa.cineca.it
4. ↑ flickriver.com from the sculpture collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth House
5. ↑ certosa.cineca.it
6. ↑ certosa.cineca.it
7. ↑ certosa.cineca.it