Luigi Ferrari (sculptor)

Luigi Ferrari (born June 21, 1810 in Venice , † May 12, 1894 ibid) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

Luigi Ferrari trained as a sculptor under the direction of his father, Bartolomeo Ferrari .

In 1840 he created the figure with the urn on the tomb of Antonio Canovas (in Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice) and in the following years carried out a series of works of various contents that established his reputation and in 1851 his appointment as professor at the Academy of fine arts in Venice . The Austrian sculptor Emanuel Pendl was his student there.

Works

Statue of Doge Francesco Foscari in the Doge's Palace .

Group of the Laocoon - different representation of the ancient model
Endymion : Shepherd with dog
(he later made copies of "Laocoon" and "Endymion" for the Tosisches Museum in Brescia )
Madonna della Concepzione , made for the house chapel of Count Villadarzere
Lotus plucking nymph
seated marble figure melancholy
Marble statue of Marco Polo for the city of Venice
David defeated Goliath, Palazzo Barozzi Emo in Venice
girl praying at his father's grave
Bird feeding innocence
marble monument to Archduke Friedrich of Austria in the Johanniterkirche in Venice (around 1850)
Statue of Saint Justus in Trieste Cathedral (1870)

literature

General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes (Volume 6). Conversation lexicon; 10th edition 1852/53, FA Brockhaus Leipzig.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Ferrari, Luigi . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 196 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ E (rich) Egg - E (gon) Kühebacher: Pendl Emanuel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 404 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Ferrari, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 1894
Place of death	Venice

[1] E (rich) Egg - E (gon) Kühebacher: Pendl Emanuel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 404 f.